Research was conducted on the relative effects on people's preferences of photographic parallax distortion, building height, and judged complexity of facades for high rise buildings. The results suggest substantial intersubject agreement in the preferences, that parallax distortion was not related to the preferences, and that components of the buildings themselves were related to the preferences.
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