Ph.D. Tezi Görüntüleme

      How people perceive environment and nature is very important field for landscape architecture discipline, which will be design these places. In this aspect, botanic gardens have chosen which have important role to gather up people and plants. As a part of this thesis, Nezahat Gokyigit (Istanbul, Turkey) and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Scotland, UK) users’ expectations, their visiting purposes and spatial-seasonal preferences are determined and preference influence have key role to evaluation of parameters. Users profile are determined with questionnaire technique, landscape choice determined with photograph questionnaire technique, spatial-seasonal preference determined with GPS, effective parameters on preferred photos are determined via visual survey method. In this study, survey shows to the premier aim of both botanic gardens are formed by recreational usage. As a result of photography questionnaire, preference influenced by wetlands’ and flower’ existence in photograph, general questionnaire, preference questionnaire, and GPS findings showed similar results and seasonal changes in botanic gardens were directly effects to people preferences were determined. Within the context of visual evaluations, descriptive parameters of visual landscape evaluation of preferred photographs were determined. .Lastly, we can see potential parameters both NGBB and KBBE are different, so it shows to culture play important role in perception of landscape.