The Humanmade Paradise: Exploring the Perceived Dimensions and Their Associations with Aesthetic Pleasure for Liu Yuan, a Chinese Classical Garden

Xin Li, Bing Xia, Anne Lusk, Xing Liu and Ning Lu
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Xin Li: School of Urban Design, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Bing Xia: College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Anne Lusk: Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Nutrition, Boston, MA 02109, USA
Xing Liu: Department of Architecture, Fine Arts Academy, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan 430074, China
Ning Lu: College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao 266033, China

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 5, 1-16

Abstract: Investigating how people perceive Chinese Classical Gardens (CCGs) and their appeal are important issues of landscape studies. By considering the Liu-Yuan Garden, we developed a measurement instrument to investigate the perceived dimensions of landscape appreciation. Based on literature review, the descriptive items to measure how people perceived Liu-Yuan Garden were developed. Then, the explorative factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were employed, and six dimensions were extracted and validated including “Adoration”, “Nostalgia”, “Liveliness”, “Exquisiteness”, “Hedonic Value”, and “Placeness”. Finally, the Ordinary Linear Regression method was employed to estimate how the aesthetic appreciation is influenced by these perceived dimensions. The result revealed that four of these dimensions were significantly correlated with aesthetic pleasure. The influences of these perceived dimensions on aesthetic pleasure were measured and compared. The results indicated that “Placeness” provided the most important influence on aesthetic pleasure, whereas “Liveliness” was the least influential of the four related dimensions.

Keywords: landscape; aesthetic pleasure; perceived dimension; Chinese Classical Gardens; regression model; Liu-Yuan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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