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来源

CITIES,Vol.76,P.105-115

语言

英文

关键字

urban; pleasantness; indicators; perceptions; Grounded Theory; EVERYDAY ODORS; SOUNDSCAPE; MEMORY; FRAMEWORK; LANGUAGE; LONG

作者单位

[Xiao, Jieling] Birmingham City Univ, Sch Architecture & Design, 5 Cardigan St, Birmingham B4 7BD, W Midlands, England. [Tait, Malcolm] Univ Sheffield, Dept Urban Planning & Studies, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, S Yorkshire, England. [Kang, Jian] Univ Sheffield, Sch Architecture, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, S Yorkshire, England. Xiao, JL (reprint author), Birmingham City Univ, Sch Architecture & Design, 5 Cardigan St, Birmingham B4 7BD, W Midlands, England. E-Mail: jieling.xiao@bcu.ac.uk

摘要

Smeliscape has increasingly attracted attentions across disciplines. However, little research provides a model to help understand the perceptual qualities of smellscapes. This paper, taking pleasantness as a perceptual quality dimension, aimed to explore indicators influencing peoples pleasantness of smellscapes in a selected case. People's natural speaking language was used as resources to understand their perceptions. Grounded Theory was used as a methodological approach in this study in a selected case. Nineteen participants were recruited for smell walking with semi-structured interviews. Overall, nine indicators emerged from participants' descriptions which contribute to their smellscape pleasantness: cleanliness, preference, appropriateness, naturalness, freshness, familiarity, calmness, intensity and purity. Meanwhile, four types of pleasantness were found according to dominant indicators: preference dominated, healthiness dominated, memories and habituation dominated and context dominated. A perceptual model has been developed based on the indicators which can be used to classify smellscapes through their dominant perceptual features and evaluate smellscape qualities based on pleasantness.