Perception of Open Spaces

Influencing factors of the built environment on the quality of stay in urban places

What are factors of the built environment that influence users’ perception of open public spaces? How do they interact with environmental stressors such as noise and traffic? Analysis of morphological factors and survey on stress perception in Darmstadt.

Publication on Perception Survey (Ger)
Publication on analysis using space syntax (opens in new tab)

Project team

Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Knöll
Prof. Dr. Annette Rudolph-Cleff Design and Urban Development Unit (est)
Katrin Neuheuser, M.Sc. Work and Engineering Psychology at TU Darmstadt

In cooperation with

Prof. Dr. Joachim Vogt, Researech group Work and Engineering Psychology
Prof. Dr. Thomas Cleff, Quantitative methods of business administration, Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences