  Geographic space demonstrates scaling or hierarchy, implying that there are
far more small things than large ones. The scaling pattern of geographic space,
if visualized properly (i.e., based on head/tail breaks), can evoke a sense of
beauty. This is our central argument. This beauty is a new type of aesthetic at
a deeper structural level, and differs in essence from an intuitive sense of
harmony, perceived in terms of color, shape, texture, and ratio. This new kind
of beauty was initially defined and discovered by Christopher Alexander, and
promoted in his master work The Nature of Order. To paraphrase Mandelbrot, this
is the beauty for the sake of science rather than for art's sake or for the
sake of commerce. Throughout the paper, we attempt to argue and illustrate that
the scaling of geographic space possesses this new kind of beauty, which has a
positive impact on human well-being. The paper further draws upon the previous
work of Nikos Salingaros and Richard Taylor on the beauty in architecture and
arts to support our argument.
  Keywords: Aesthetics, heavy-tailed distributions, head/tail breaks, Zipf's
law, and fractals
