Title
Measuring visual pollution by outdoor advertisements in an urban street using intervisibilty analysis and public surveys.
Abstract
Debates on the encroaching commercialization of public space by outdoor advertising highlight its possible negative impact on local quality of life and enjoyment of public spaces. These overstimulating outdoor advertisements are often considered a source of visual pollution, but cities have no standard way of measuring where it exists and its local impact, and thus cannot regulate it effectively. This study illustrates that visual pollution can be measured in a useful way by relating public opinion to the number of visible advertisements intervisibility analysis. Using a 2.5D outdoor advertisement OA dataset location and height of a busy urban street in Lublin, Poland, this preliminary experiment translates visibility into visual pollution. It was found that streetscape views with more than seven visible OAs created visual pollution in this case study. The GIS-based methodology proposed could provide Lublin officials with a basic tool to assess and manage visual pollution, by informing permitting decisions on OAs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1080/13658816.2015.1104316
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Visual pollution, visibility analysis, outdoor advertising, billboards
Visibility,Public space,Advertising,Visual pollution,Public opinion,Commercialization,Geography
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
30
4
1365-8816
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
4
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Szymon Chmielewski120.71
Danbi J. Lee220.37
Piotr Tompalski3103.58
Tadeusz J. Chmielewski420.37
Piotr Wezyk520.37