Print Email Facebook Twitter Understanding how multi-sensory spatial experience influences atmosphere, affective city image and behavioural intention Title Understanding how multi-sensory spatial experience influences atmosphere, affective city image and behavioural intention Author Dai, T. (TU Delft History, Form & Aesthetics) Zheng, Xing (Eindhoven University of Technology) Date 2021 Abstract This article firstly emphasizes the perspective viewing public spaces as places where meaningful spatial quality, i.e., atmosphere, is generated through multi-sensory spatial experiences, secondly proves that atmosphere has a positive direct impact on affective city image, also a positive indirect impact on behavioural intention, and finally proposes strategies of designing, managing and representing architectures and urban spaces, for city image formulation and communication. Nanjing, a historical Chinese city eager to re-image, is chosen as the case area to testify the significance of multi-sensory spatial perception in shaping one's affection for a city. The study reviews the key dimensions composing multi-sensory experience in public spaces, also interviews 162 visitors and 201 residents. The results suggest that, for sustainable urban development, the design, management and promotion of iconic public spaces should holistically enhance people's haptic, audible and visual experience in motion to facilitate perception of atmosphere. Subject Affective city imageAtmosphereBehavioural intentionMulti-sensory experiencePublic space To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6cfe4a58-beee-4b57-b54f-d6c67359c48e DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2021.106595 ISSN 0195-9255 Source Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 89 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2021 T. Dai, Xing Zheng Files PDF 1_s2.0_S0195925521000457_main.pdf 985.92 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:6cfe4a58-beee-4b57-b54f-d6c67359c48e/datastream/OBJ/view