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Yalcin Yildirim
Several natural and historical areas around the world are listed as UNESCO Cultural Heritage Sites. Hanlar District, located in Bursa, is the fourth biggest city in Turkey, its history includes the Ottoman, Roman, and Byzantine Empires, and it is an area...
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Neil Spencer Bruce
This paper proposes the ?soundsit? as an alternative method to be used independently or in conjunction with current soundwalking methodological practice. The soundsit seeks to address the limits of the soundwalking method in relation to issues of transit...
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Samantha Di Loreto, Fabio Serpilli and Valter Lori
Today, the art of knowing how to listen is more urgent than ever. The perceptive sound system of the human being is stimulated daily by countless artificial sounds that dominate natural ones. When it comes to the idea of the soundscape, the terminology w...
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Pamela Jordan and André Fiebig
The ISO 12913 standards acknowledge the primacy of context in perceiving acoustic environments. In soundscape assessments, context is constituted by both physical surroundings and psychological, social, and cultural factors. Previous studies have reveale...
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Anastasia Korkontzila, Aimilia Karapostoli, Aggelos Tsaligopoulos and Yiannis G. Matsinos
The degradation caused by environmental noise affects the sound identities of several areas, especially at a city level, so there is a need for immediate individual and collective action. This paper focuses on the environmental noise impacts towards the ...
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Tin Oberman, Kristian Jambro?ic, Marko Horvat and Bojana Bojanic Obad ?citaroci
This paper discusses the soundscape assessment approaches to soundscape interventions with musical features introduced to public spaces as permanent sound art, with a focus on the ISO 12913 series, Method A for data collection applied in a laboratory stu...
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Daniel Steele, Edda Bild, Cynthia Tarlao and Catherine Guastavino
Decades of research support the idea that striving for lower sound levels is the cornerstone of protecting urban public health. Growing insight on urban soundscapes, however, highlights a more complex role of sound in public spaces, mediated by context, ...
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Karlo Filipan, Michiel Boes, Bert De Coensel, Catherine Lavandier, Pauline Delaitre, Hrvoje Domitrovic and Dick Botteldooren
Previous research has shown that tranquil areas in the city, such as urban parks, are usually perceived as positive and have a restorative effect on visitors. However, visitors could experience these spaces differently depending on the meaning they assig...
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Francesco Aletta, Giovanni Brambilla, Luigi Maffei and Massimiliano Masullo
The tourist experience of built environments has received a lot of attention in tourism marketing and management research. Several studies have shown that the environmental qualities of a place can contribute to its aesthetic appreciation and overall exp...
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Francesco Aletta, Giovanni Brambilla, Luigi Maffei and Massimiliano Masullo
The tourist experience of built environments has received a lot of attention in tourism marketing and management research. Several studies have shown that the environmental qualities of a place can contribute to its aesthetic appreciation and overall exp...
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Monika Rychtáriková, Martin Jedovnický, Andrea Vargová and Christ Glorieux
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Chunyang Xu, Tin Oberman, Francesco Aletta, Huan Tong and Jian Kang
Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) is a simulated technology used to deliver multisensory information to people under different environmental conditions. When IVR is generally applied in urban planning and soundscape research, it reveals attractive possibil...
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Yalcin Yildirim, Merve Dilman, Volkan Muftuoglu and Sara Demir
Green and blue infrastructures provide economic, environmental, and social benefits to urban life. Various areas that are passing through such infrastructures have implications for those benefits. For instance, urban, rural, agricultural, and industrial ...
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Nikolaos M. Papadakis and Georgios E. Stavroulakis
Noise barriers are a critical part of noise mitigation in urban and rural areas. In this study, a comparison of the insertion loss calculations of noise barriers via the Finite Element Method (FEM) and various formulae (Kurze?Anderson, ISO 9613-2/Tatge, ...
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Georgia Gerolymatou, Nicolas Rémy, Konstantinos Vogiatzis and Vassiliki Zafiropoulou
In 2013 and 2014, two main International Airports in Greece were evaluated through the European directive on noise environment 2002/49/EC: “Nikos Kazantzakis” International Airport of Heraklion Crete and “Ioannis—Kapodistrias&rdqu...
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Luca Cassina, Luca Fredianelli, Irene Menichini, Claudia Chiari and Gaetano Licitra
During a survey related to acoustic and visual perception of users of urban areas, 614 people have been interviewed in Pisa (Italy). The work aims to identify and quantify the effects of parameters influencing the perception of tranquillity in order to u...
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Joo Young Hong, Jianjun He, Bhan Lam, Rishabh Gupta and Woon-Seng Gan
With the advancement of spatial audio technologies, in both recording and reproduction, we are seeing more applications that incorporate 3D sound to create an immersive aural experience. Soundscape design and evaluation for urban planning can now tap int...
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Rosa Ma Alsina-Pagès, Marc Vilella, Marc Pons and Robert Garcia Almazan
In the new paradigm of the smart cities world, public opinion is one of the most important issues in the new conception of urban space and its corresponding regulations. The data collection in terms of environmental noise cannot only be related to the va...
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Ugur Beyza ERÇAKMAK and Papatya Nur DÖKMECI YÖRÜKOGLU
Improving soundscape studies and policies states that the soundscape approach, which also considers noise interventions, should replace noise management. However, a considerable number of soundscape studies have been concerned with the quality of acousti...
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Gisela Coronado Schwindt
This paper seeks to develop some conceptual elements that articulated the social construction of the soundscape of the urban spaces of the kingdom of Castile (15th?16th centuries). We focus our attention on the revision of the normative spheres that stru...
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