Place ambiance has a huge influence over how we perceive places. Despite its importance,
ambiance has been crucially overlooked by urban planners and scientists alike, not least …

New research cutting across architecture, urban studies, and psychology is contextualizing
the understanding of urban spaces according to the perceptions of their inhabitants. One …

In the recent past, there has been interest in characterizing the physical and social
ambiance of urban spaces to understand how people perceive and form impressions of …

In the 1960s, Lynch's' The Image of the City'explored what impression US city
neighborhoods left on its inhabitants. The scale of urban perception studies until recently …

In this article, we analyze geolocated Airbnb rental images in ten major cities. Airbnb is a
hallmark institution in the sharing economy, allowing anyone with a bed and shelter to act …

In his classic book “The Image of the City” Kevin Lynch used empirical work to show how
different elements of the city were perceived: such as paths, landmarks, districts, edges, and …

We present a mobile crowdsourcing study to capture and examine the nightlife patterns of
two youth populations in Switzerland. Our contributions are three fold. First, we developed a …

Sharing photos, videos and comments on social media may seem an idle pastime, but it is
not without its uses where urban design is concerned. Analysing such posts can yield …

To increase mobile user engagement, photo sharing sites are trying to identify interesting
and memorable pictures. Past proposals for identifying such pictures have relied on either …

Understanding the visual discrepancy and heterogeneity of different places is of great
interest to architectural design, urban design and tourism planning. However, previous …