The general aim has been to illuminate the psychological mechanisms involved in outdoor
place and weather assessment. This reasoning was conceptualized in a model, tentatively …

Four urban public spaces, representing various designs and microclimates, were
investigated in Gothenburg, Sweden, in order to estimate how weather and microclimate …

The main objective of the present quasi-experimental study was to examine the influence of
culture (Swedish vs Japanese) and environmental attitude (urban vs open-air person) on …

Acceptance of public spaces is often guided by perceptual schemata. Such schemata also
seem to play a role in thermal comfort and microclimate experience. For climate-responsive …

The main objective of the present study was to examine the influence of culture (Sweden vs.
Japan) and environmental attitude (urban vs. open-air person) on participants' thermal …

We aim to understand the relationship between people's declared bioclimatic comfort, their
personal characteristics (age, origin, clothing, activity and motivation, etc.) and the …

This paper aims at extending earlier models of outdoor thermal perception by fusing new
knowledge from recent literature and deriving perspectives for future research and methods …

During two investigation periods in transient seasons (14 weekdays in autumn 2009 and 15
weekdays in spring 2010) 967 visitors in two inner city squares of Szeged (Hungary) were …

This study examined the relations between place, climate, place attachment and place
identity using Breakwell's four processes model of place identity (eg Twigger-Ross …

People in urban areas frequently use parks for recreation and outdoor activities. Owing to
the complexity of the outdoor environment, there have only been a few attempts to …