Promoting Healthy and Supportive Acoustic Environments: Going beyond the Quietness

• Autore: Aletta Francesco
• Pubblicazione: Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (334 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Humanities; Social interaction
• Soggetto non controllato: acoustic comfort; acoustic environment; acoustic environments; acoustic territory; appropriateness; audio-visual interaction; audio-visual walk; auditory; autoethnography; bird song; children's cognitive performance; classroom soundscape; cross-sectional survey; democratic soundscape installation; emotions; enjoyment; environmental noise; environmental sounds; experiment; garden therapy; general plan; green space; greenness; inner yard acoustics; irrelevant speech noise; Japanese gardens; landscape architecture; landscape planning; mental health; mixed methods study; Musikiosk; n/a; noise; noise abatement; noise annoyance; noise exposure; noise perception; occupants' behavior; open-plan offices; orthogonal analysis; perceived restoration; perceptual attributes; physiology; pocket park; productivity; psychological restoration; public health; public spaces; quality of experience; quality of life; quality of the urban public experience; quiet area; quiet areas; quietness; restoration; restorative effect; semiosis model; shared offices; short-term memory; sonic experience; sound perception; soundscape; soundscape actions; soundscape design; soundscape intervention; soundscape pleasantness; square dancing; stress; sustainability; sustained attention; tranquillity; urban design; urban environments; urban open public spaces; urban park; urban parks; urban planning; urban sound planning; urban square; vibrancy; virtual audio; virtual reality; virtual room acoustics; well-being; young people's psychological response
• Persona (resp. second.): KangJian; AlettaFrancesco
• Sommario/riassunto: This book gathers 14 original contributions published in an IJERPH Special Issue that deal with the perception of environmental sounds and how such sounds are likely to affect human quality of life and well-being and the experience of a place. The research focus over the years has been gradually shifting from treating sound simply as "noise" and something that cities should get rid of to a potential "resource" to promote and support community life in public spaces. Three main topics or "needs" to be addressed by researchers and practitioners emerged from this Special Issue: (1) the need to re-think "quietness" in cities as something that goes beyond the mere "pursuit of silence", (2) the need to integrate additional contextual factors in the characterization and management of urban acoustic environments for public health, and (3) the need to consider the acoustic quality of indoor spaces as opposed to an outdoor-only perspective. The contributions collected in this book will hopefully trigger new questions and inform the agenda of future researchers and practitioners in the environmental acoustics domain.
• Altri titoli varianti: Promoting Healthy and Supportive Acoustic Environments
• Titolo autorizzato: Promoting Healthy and Supportive Acoustic Environments: Going beyond the Quietness
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910557760503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II