Evaluating Different Planting Design Compositions for Visual Landscape Quality in Street Planting

Street greening in urban settings fails due to several extreme conditions or inappropriate plant species and compositions. In recent years, urban transformations have been carried out in Erzurum, one of the most important cities of the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. Seventeen different plant designs produced in computer medium for the Cumhuriyet Street, the most important street of the city and a trade center, were evaluated using visual landscape quality method. The designs were rated by 150 city questioners for color, size and form and the results were evaluated using the SPSS statistics software. The most preferred plant designs for the street had spherical form, pink color, slight texture and 1.5-2 meters tall. In addition, the proportion of closure in the plant designs produced in our study was computed and it was compared with the results of the analysis. The results are important in putting the outcomes into practice regarding the participation of public in the reformation of urban living areas