| Title |
An Analysis of Streetscape Characteristics of Motel Clusters in the City - Focused on Sinchon Motel Cluster |
| Authors |
박정환(Park, Jung-Hwan) ; 권영상(Kwon, Young-Sang) |
| Keywords |
모텔 ; 모텔촌 ; 가로경관 ; 경관분석 Motel ; Motel Cluster ; Streetscape ; Landscape Analysis |
| Abstract |
Motel clusters in Korea have been consistently criticized for their possible adverse effects on educational environment, residential environment and urban landscape. The negative effects of motel clusters can be reduced through enhancing their streetscape quality, but not much has been addressed on this issue in the previous studies. Therefore, this study aims at investigating the characteristics of the streetscape of motel clusters. The result showed that the aesthetic quality of the streetscape of the motel clusters was lower than that of the nearby commercial streets. The streetscape of the motel clusters were evaluated to be more ‘suffocating’, ‘closed’, ‘dull’, ‘unpleasant’, and ‘uniform’. We found that two factors, index of harmony and index of openness, played a key role in evaluating the image of the motel clusters. The result of multiple linear regression analysis indicated that the index of harmony was much more important in aesthetic judgement of the motel clusters. Motel clusters management should be carried out in order to enhance the harmony of the landscape of the motel clusters. |