New Approaches to the Landscape Aesthetics Research

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According to the approaches of landscape aesthetics developed in the twentieth century based on environmental
psychology and experimental works, landscape and urban planning is of high priority . On the other hand, the effect
of aesthetics on the perception, experience and changes of landscape is highly highlighted. According to researchoriented
perspectives, aesthetics is very important for perception and experience of landscape.
Aesthetics also affect the changes of landscape.
Nowadays, aesthetics plays a significant role in the landscape architecture and is used as a driver to change the
landscape in term of cultural values, social justice and environmental rights.. Aesthetics provide a new form of
sustainable landscape and contribute to beauty, acceptance and make sense of the landscape. The objective of this study
was to find the paradigm of landscape aesthetics in the future. According to the qualitative data of previous studies, to
understand future researches in the field of aesthetic landscape, three different approaches should be concerned that
are described in detail in this study. These approaches including phenomenological, psychological and ecological can
shape the general paradigm of landscape aesthetic and determine the direction of the future researches in the field of
landscape; therefore, this paper tries to answers these questions: what are the new approaches to study the landscape
aesthetics? How these approaches can be used to shape the researches in the field of landscape aesthetics in the future?
This is a descriptive-analytical study.. In this study, scientists’ views and intellectual typology of the past century
have been collected by analysis of the approaches mentioned above. If the phenomenological approach is perceived
as the exchanged type and the ecological approach as a holistic one, psychological approach is as psychological
and evolutionary approach. According to the results of study on the future researches on landscape aesthetics, the
approaches mentioned above are neither incompatible nor consistent. These approaches complement each other, but
explain different aspects of landscape aesthetics.

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The Monthly Scientific Journal of Bagh-e Nazar
Volume 14, Issue 49
July 2017
Pages 69-76

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