Jack L Nasar
Biographic Data
| ID | 220172 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack L Nasar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack L |
| FAMILY NAME | Nasar |
| SIGNATURE | NASAR J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8214-8257 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Splash and a Crowd: Do Water Fountains and Storefronts Improve Plaza’s Visitability
Whyte made recommendations based on observational studies on making public plazas more livable. The present paper describes two experiments that looked at whether two design attributes he identified—water features and active streets—increase livability measured through visitability, a concept that replaced livability. The studies manipulated four scenarios for fountains (accessible, inaccessible, floor, nothing) and two for storefronts (present, …
An experimental study using manipulated photographs to examine interactions between micro-scale environmental factors for children's cycling for transport
Environmental factors influencing older adults’ walking for transportation: A study using walk-along interviews
BACKGROUND: Current knowledge on the relationship between the physical environment and walking for transportation among older adults (≥ 65 years) is limited. Qualitative research can provide valuable information and inform further research. However, qualitative studies are scarce and fail to include neighborhood outings necessary to study participants' experiences and perceptions while interacting with and interpreting the local social and physic…
Where Do Planners Belong? Assessing the Relationship between Planning and Design in American Universities
This article assesses the performance of U.S. planning programs relative to their administrative location in design versus nondesign units. We use both archival data to compare program rankings between design and nondesign units and a survey of a random sample of faculty (108 at 61 accredited programs). The archival data show a higher publication performance of programs in nondesign units. The survey finds that faculty respondents from nondesign …
Neighborhood satisfaction, physical and perceived naturalness and openness
Call if You Have Trouble: Mobile Phones and Safety among College Students
In theory, mobile phone use may have beneficial and harmful effects. Individuals may use mobile phones to call for help or report various dangers and emergencies, but they may also go places they would not normally go without the phone. To test the perceptions of safety and subsequent behavior associated with mobile phone use, we conducted two surveys. One survey of 317 undergraduates at The Ohio State University (OSU) found that most students re…
Does Neotraditional Development Build Community
Neotraditionaldevelopment has captured the attention of planners, architects, and developers. The various kinds of development under this label claim to replace the traditional auto-dependent suburb with pedestrian-oriented mixed-use development that builds sense of community. The present study tests two claims of neotraditional plans. In a community having a traditional suburb and nearby a traditional small-town center, on which neotraditional d…
Evaluative Responses to Five Kinds of Water Features
How do humans respond to different water features used by designers in urban plazas? Thirty participants viewed colour photographs of controlled views of five kinds of water features (Still, Flowing, Falling, Jet and Combination) and rated each scene on nine bi-polar adjective scales. The analyses focused on three composite scales, one for Preference, one for Calming and one for Excitement. Although the water features generally received favourabl…
Signs as Yard art in Amarillo, Texas
The city of Amarillo, Texas, is unusual in that more than 5,000 art objects in the form of signs are displayed on individual properties. These signs represent a unique partnership between the public and a wealthy individual, Stanley Marsh 3, who subsidizes them. Through a field survey of 723 signs and a questionnaire mailed to 98 residents with signs in their yards, we explored use of the signs for communal and individual expression. The field su…
The Psychological Sense of Community in the Neighborhood
Many urban problems are blamed on a declining sense of community. To assess such claims and to learn how policies affect sense of community, we need a reliable and valid measure for the construct. This paper describes the development and testing of an 11-item Likert scale of the sense of neighborhood community, using responses from 54 residents in three suburbs in Columbus, Ohio. One test of the scale with 100 residents in single-use and mixed-us…
Urban Design Aesthetics: The Evaluative Qualities of Building Exteriors
Design reviewers make judgments based on their opinion of how physical features influence the evaluative quality of the building and its surroundings. What features evoke favorable evaluative responses? Although some people may view aesthetics as qualitative and idiosyncratic, researchers have continued in their search for general principles. This article reviews that research, with particular attention to building exteriors. The article defines …
‘Hot spots’ of fear and crime: A multi-method investigation
Fear of Crime in Relation to Three Exterior Site Features: Prospect, Refuge, and Escape
This article examines fear of crime in relation to exterior site features on a college campus. The authors propose and test a theoretical model that posits that places that afford offenders refuge, and victims limited prospect and escape, will be seen as unsafe. In three studies, the authors observed behavior, obtained responses to site plans and on-site responses to perceptions of safety in relation to exterior campus areas that varied in prospe…
Environmental Aesthetics: Theory, Research, and Applications
The Evaluative Image of the City
To improve community appearance, planners need to know how the public evaluates the cityscape: their evaluative image of the city. This article presents research aimed at uncovering this information. In two U.S. cities, Knoxville and Chattanooga, Tennessee, we interviewed 220 residents by phone and 180 visitors face-to-face, asking them to specify areas they liked and areas they disliked visually and to describe the physical features accounting f…
Physical correlates of perceived quality in lakeshore development
This research examined dimensions of perception and preference for shoreline scenes. A systematic random sample of 63 shoreline scenes was obtained and photographed. Sixty adults were asked to sort the photographs of shoreline scenes in terms of similarity. They were also asked to identify the constructs which they used to sort and to rank the scenes in terms of preference. Comparisons of preferences by age, income, marital status, and sex groups…
Visual Preferences in Urban Street Scenes: A Cross-Cultural Comparison between Japan and the United States
This research examined visual environmental preferences of a sample of 46 subjects (Ss): 29 in Japan and 17 in the United States. The Ss (who were all students) were asked to evaluate videotapes and slides of urban street scenes in each country. An examination of preference scores revealed that both Japanese and U.S. Ss preferred foreign scenes to native ones. Physical properties of each scene were judged by four professionals in the United State…
Does Neotraditional Development Build Community
Neotraditionaldevelopment has captured the attention of planners, architects, and developers. The various kinds of development under this label claim to replace the traditional auto-dependent suburb with pedestrian-oriented mixed-use development that builds sense of community. The present study tests two claims of neotraditional plans. In a community having a traditional suburb and nearby a traditional small-town center, on which neotraditional d…
Where Do Planners Belong? Assessing the Relationship between Planning and Design in American Universities
This article assesses the performance of U.S. planning programs relative to their administrative location in design versus nondesign units. We use both archival data to compare program rankings between design and nondesign units and a survey of a random sample of faculty (108 at 61 accredited programs). The archival data show a higher publication performance of programs in nondesign units. The survey finds that faculty respondents from nondesign …
Call if You Have Trouble: Mobile Phones and Safety among College Students
In theory, mobile phone use may have beneficial and harmful effects. Individuals may use mobile phones to call for help or report various dangers and emergencies, but they may also go places they would not normally go without the phone. To test the perceptions of safety and subsequent behavior associated with mobile phone use, we conducted two surveys. One survey of 317 undergraduates at The Ohio State University (OSU) found that most students re…
An experimental study using manipulated photographs to examine interactions between micro-scale environmental factors for children's cycling for transport
Visual Preferences in Urban Street Scenes: A Cross-Cultural Comparison between Japan and the United States
This research examined visual environmental preferences of a sample of 46 subjects (Ss): 29 in Japan and 17 in the United States. The Ss (who were all students) were asked to evaluate videotapes and slides of urban street scenes in each country. An examination of preference scores revealed that both Japanese and U.S. Ss preferred foreign scenes to native ones. Physical properties of each scene were judged by four professionals in the United State…
Evaluative Responses to Five Kinds of Water Features
How do humans respond to different water features used by designers in urban plazas? Thirty participants viewed colour photographs of controlled views of five kinds of water features (Still, Flowing, Falling, Jet and Combination) and rated each scene on nine bi-polar adjective scales. The analyses focused on three composite scales, one for Preference, one for Calming and one for Excitement. Although the water features generally received favourabl…
Signs as Yard art in Amarillo, Texas
The city of Amarillo, Texas, is unusual in that more than 5,000 art objects in the form of signs are displayed on individual properties. These signs represent a unique partnership between the public and a wealthy individual, Stanley Marsh 3, who subsidizes them. Through a field survey of 723 signs and a questionnaire mailed to 98 residents with signs in their yards, we explored use of the signs for communal and individual expression. The field su…
Physical correlates of perceived quality in lakeshore development
This research examined dimensions of perception and preference for shoreline scenes. A systematic random sample of 63 shoreline scenes was obtained and photographed. Sixty adults were asked to sort the photographs of shoreline scenes in terms of similarity. They were also asked to identify the constructs which they used to sort and to rank the scenes in terms of preference. Comparisons of preferences by age, income, marital status, and sex groups…
Visual Preferences in Urban Street Scenes: A Cross-Cultural Comparison between Japan and the United States
This research examined visual environmental preferences of a sample of 46 subjects (Ss): 29 in Japan and 17 in the United States. The Ss (who were all students) were asked to evaluate videotapes and slides of urban street scenes in each country. An examination of preference scores revealed that both Japanese and U.S. Ss preferred foreign scenes to native ones. Physical properties of each scene were judged by four professionals in the United State…
Physical correlates of perceived quality in lakeshore development
This research examined dimensions of perception and preference for shoreline scenes. A systematic random sample of 63 shoreline scenes was obtained and photographed. Sixty adults were asked to sort the photographs of shoreline scenes in terms of similarity. They were also asked to identify the constructs which they used to sort and to rank the scenes in terms of preference. Comparisons of preferences by age, income, marital status, and sex groups…
The Evaluative Image of the City
To improve community appearance, planners need to know how the public evaluates the cityscape: their evaluative image of the city. This article presents research aimed at uncovering this information. In two U.S. cities, Knoxville and Chattanooga, Tennessee, we interviewed 220 residents by phone and 180 visitors face-to-face, asking them to specify areas they liked and areas they disliked visually and to describe the physical features accounting f…
Fear of Crime in Relation to Three Exterior Site Features: Prospect, Refuge, and Escape
This article examines fear of crime in relation to exterior site features on a college campus. The authors propose and test a theoretical model that posits that places that afford offenders refuge, and victims limited prospect and escape, will be seen as unsafe. In three studies, the authors observed behavior, obtained responses to site plans and on-site responses to perceptions of safety in relation to exterior campus areas that varied in prospe…
Environmental Aesthetics: Theory, Research, and Applications
‘Hot spots’ of fear and crime: A multi-method investigation
Urban Design Aesthetics: The Evaluative Qualities of Building Exteriors
Design reviewers make judgments based on their opinion of how physical features influence the evaluative quality of the building and its surroundings. What features evoke favorable evaluative responses? Although some people may view aesthetics as qualitative and idiosyncratic, researchers have continued in their search for general principles. This article reviews that research, with particular attention to building exteriors. The article defines …
The Psychological Sense of Community in the Neighborhood
Many urban problems are blamed on a declining sense of community. To assess such claims and to learn how policies affect sense of community, we need a reliable and valid measure for the construct. This paper describes the development and testing of an 11-item Likert scale of the sense of neighborhood community, using responses from 54 residents in three suburbs in Columbus, Ohio. One test of the scale with 100 residents in single-use and mixed-us…
Does Neotraditional Development Build Community
Neotraditionaldevelopment has captured the attention of planners, architects, and developers. The various kinds of development under this label claim to replace the traditional auto-dependent suburb with pedestrian-oriented mixed-use development that builds sense of community. The present study tests two claims of neotraditional plans. In a community having a traditional suburb and nearby a traditional small-town center, on which neotraditional d…
Evaluative Responses to Five Kinds of Water Features
How do humans respond to different water features used by designers in urban plazas? Thirty participants viewed colour photographs of controlled views of five kinds of water features (Still, Flowing, Falling, Jet and Combination) and rated each scene on nine bi-polar adjective scales. The analyses focused on three composite scales, one for Preference, one for Calming and one for Excitement. Although the water features generally received favourabl…
Signs as Yard art in Amarillo, Texas
The city of Amarillo, Texas, is unusual in that more than 5,000 art objects in the form of signs are displayed on individual properties. These signs represent a unique partnership between the public and a wealthy individual, Stanley Marsh 3, who subsidizes them. Through a field survey of 723 signs and a questionnaire mailed to 98 residents with signs in their yards, we explored use of the signs for communal and individual expression. The field su…
Call if You Have Trouble: Mobile Phones and Safety among College Students
In theory, mobile phone use may have beneficial and harmful effects. Individuals may use mobile phones to call for help or report various dangers and emergencies, but they may also go places they would not normally go without the phone. To test the perceptions of safety and subsequent behavior associated with mobile phone use, we conducted two surveys. One survey of 317 undergraduates at The Ohio State University (OSU) found that most students re…
Neighborhood satisfaction, physical and perceived naturalness and openness
Where Do Planners Belong? Assessing the Relationship between Planning and Design in American Universities
This article assesses the performance of U.S. planning programs relative to their administrative location in design versus nondesign units. We use both archival data to compare program rankings between design and nondesign units and a survey of a random sample of faculty (108 at 61 accredited programs). The archival data show a higher publication performance of programs in nondesign units. The survey finds that faculty respondents from nondesign …
Environmental factors influencing older adults’ walking for transportation: A study using walk-along interviews
BACKGROUND: Current knowledge on the relationship between the physical environment and walking for transportation among older adults (≥ 65 years) is limited. Qualitative research can provide valuable information and inform further research. However, qualitative studies are scarce and fail to include neighborhood outings necessary to study participants' experiences and perceptions while interacting with and interpreting the local social and physic…
An experimental study using manipulated photographs to examine interactions between micro-scale environmental factors for children's cycling for transport
A Splash and a Crowd: Do Water Fountains and Storefronts Improve Plaza’s Visitability
Whyte made recommendations based on observational studies on making public plazas more livable. The present paper describes two experiments that looked at whether two design attributes he identified—water features and active streets—increase livability measured through visitability, a concept that replaced livability. The studies manipulated four scenarios for fountains (accessible, inaccessible, floor, nothing) and two for storefronts (present, …
Psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Geography (10 works) · Urban Green Space and Health (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Place Attachment and Urban Studies (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Cartography (5 works) · Medicine (5 works)