Effect of the appropriateness of sound environment on urban soundscape assessment

Jo, Hyun In; Jeon, Jin Yong

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.106975

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“…This is in line with the findings of Hong and Jeon [27] that natural sounds are not directly related to the appropriateness of soundscapes in urban outdoor residential areas. Meanwhile, humangenerated sounds such as conversations and sounds of playing children might be more closely associated with socio-recreational activities in outdoor areas because several studies [27,39,51] have found that human-generated sounds play a critical role in constructing an appropriate soundscape, particularly in places for recreation and socializing. Accepted version before copy editing Published article: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102475…”

Section: Effect Of Expected Human Activities On Perceptions Of Natural Soundsmentioning

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“…In particular, congruency between the acoustic and visual environment is known to modulate audio-visual interactions, which strongly affect the appraisal of both soundscape [34,39] and landscape [40,41]. Notably, sound source visibility has been identified as a critical aspect of the audio-visual congruency, but the effect of sound source visibility on noise annoyance has yielded inconclusive observations; Some have reported that a visible road traffic noise source increased subjective annoyance [42], whereas others have reported that the perceived annoyance of road traffic noise reduced when a road was visible [43,44].…”

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Effects of contexts in urban residential areas on the pleasantness and appropriateness of natural sounds

Hong

Lam

Ong

et al. 2020

Sustainable Cities and Society

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Before introducing natural sounds to potentially improve the soundscape quality, it is important to understand how key contextual factors (i.e. expected activities and audiovisual congruency) affect the soundscape in a given location. In this study, the perception of eight natural sounds (i.e. 4 birdsongs, 4 water sounds) at five urban recreational areas under the constant influence of road traffic was explored subjectively under three laboratory settings: visual-only, audio-only, and audio-visual. Firstly, expected sociorecreational activities of each location were determined in the visual -only setting.Subsequently, participants assessed the pleasantness and appropriateness of the soundscape at each site, for each of the eight natural sounds augmented to the same road traffic noise, in both audio-only and audio-visual settings. Interestingly, it was found that the expected activities in each location did not significantly affect natural sound perception, whereas audio-visual congruency of the locations significantly affected the pleasantness and appropriateness of the natural sounds. Particularly, the pleasantness and appropriateness decreased for water sounds when water features were not visually present.In contrast, perception with birdsongs was unaffected by their visibility likely due to the presence of vegetation. Hence, audio-visual coherence is central to the perception of natural sounds in outdoor spaces.

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Section: Effect Of Expected Human Activities On Perceptions Of Natural Soundsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Effects of contexts in urban residential areas on the pleasantness and appropriateness of natural sounds

Hong

Lam

Ong

et al. 2020

Sustainable Cities and Society

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“…The result of this study therefore is in line with that of Dolezal and Spitzbart-Glasl (2015) who found that acoustic quality of building components can have impact on the ecological performance of the whole building. Backed by the classical theories of music, mood and movement championed by Murrock and Higgins (2009), this study keyed into the results of other studies (Batt-Rawden & Storlien, 2019;Challe, 2015;Jiang et al, 2019;Jo & Jeon, 2020;Raglio et al, 2020;Yi & Kang, 2019) that affirmed the positive roles of music towards ensuring socioecological sustainability and promoting the well-being of building users in our buildings. The study has strengthened the result of Okoye et al (2020b) which found that among the sustainability dimensions, social sustainability performance of buildings was mostly affected, but in the antithetical direction.…”

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Ecomusicology: A socioecological dimension towards acoustically sustainable residential buildings

Okoye

Okolie

Ohaedeghasi

et al. 2020

SJES

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This study examined the socioecological roles of music sounds towards achieving acoustically sustainable residential building. The study adopted a survey research approach where questionnaires were distributed to the occupants of different types of residential buildings in three urban cities of Anambra State Nigeria. The survey data were analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) Software. The results revealed that music plays significant roles towards acoustically sustainable building performance with the overall average mean score index of 4.36 and a range of 3.64 to 4.87. But the three most outstanding roles played by music towards acoustically sustainable building performance were: Enabling pleasant sound environment (4.87), improving quality of relaxation and resting (4.83), and increasing acoustic comfort and satisfaction (4.79). The result of one-way ANOVA revealed that music sounds significantly influence acoustical sustainability performance of residential buildings (p-value (.000) < α (0.05); F-ratio (148.377) > F-critical (3.020)); and that there was no significance difference between opinions of residents of the three urban cities in this regard (p-value (0.713) > α (0.05); F-ratio (0.338) < F-critical (3.020)). This study therefore, canvassed for integration of music principles and acoustics into sustainable building design processes as a way of achieving a sustainable building.

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“…Green spaces promote human well-being and health (Bertram and Rehdanz 2015), counteract the negative impacts of urbanization (Haaland and van den Bosch 2015, Shams and Barker 2019), improve biodiversity levels (Zhou et al 2018, Wang et al 2019 and create more desirable soundscapes (Jo and Jeon 2020). It is logical to assume that the degree of species diversity across many taxa (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

Sound and the healthy city

Radicchi

Yelmi

Chung³

et al. 2020

Cities & Health

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At an international level it is recognised that urban noise has serious and negative public health impacts. This leading editorial and the special issue it accompanies seeks to broaden this agenda. An important goal for Cities & Health is to give ear to new urban health topics, methods and collaborations. In doing so this paper presents the topic of urban sound and health from several unique angles. At its core, we deliberately move the focus beyond noise levels, as measured by decibels, and harm to health through the stress of relentless background noise. Instead, we focus on the concept of soundscape, a more qualitatively nuanced research subject of enquiry. The paper serves as an introduction to soundscape and health from several distinct disciplinary positions and lays a good intellectual foundation for the twenty-two papers published in this special issue. We hope that through a soundscape approach we can encourage fresh thinking about urban sound, including how people perceive and relate to their sonic environments, and show how sound can contribute to health. We believe that this approach can provide a collaborative platform for sound artists, sound technologists, urbanists and local people to work together with public health and create healthier urban environments.

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Effect of the appropriateness of sound environment on urban soundscape assessment

Cited by 61 publications

References 48 publications

Effects of contexts in urban residential areas on the pleasantness and appropriateness of natural sounds

Effects of contexts in urban residential areas on the pleasantness and appropriateness of natural sounds

Ecomusicology: A socioecological dimension towards acoustically sustainable residential buildings

Sound and the healthy city

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