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Soundwalk path affecting soundscape assessment in urban parks

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionPrevious soundscape studies focused on sound perception and acoustic comfort in sampled sites and ignored the characteristics of the experiential process along the paths.
Chutian Sun   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Differences in mammal community response to highway construction across different levels of human land use

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Worldwide, transportation agencies have been involved in road mitigation efforts to reduce road mortality and promote connectivity of endangered species. Baseline data on how mammals respond to highway construction, however, are rarely collected in road mitigation and monitoring studies, including in the USA.
Thomas J. Yamashita   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Paysage sonore and Soundscape [PDF]

open access: yes
The purpose of this article is to reconsider the relationships between ‘paysage sonore’ (auditory landscape) and ‘soundscape’ in order to see the well-known but ambiguous concept of the soundscape in a new light. In ‘Rethinking the Soundscape’ Ari Kelman
IZUMI, Hiroshi, 和泉, 浩
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Concept, Framework, and Data Model for Geographical Soundscapes

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Existing concepts and frameworks of soundscapes focus on the analysis and description of the sound source but do not explore geographical environment parameters and receiver characteristics in the geographical scene.
Xiu Lu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of complex soundscapes on the occurrence of Anaxipha pallidula in isolated green spaces in Tokyo

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Urban green spaces experience a mix of natural and anthropogenic noises, which could disrupt the vocal communication of several species. This study investigated how such complex soundscapes affect the occurrence of Anaxipha pallidula, which communicates through calls, focusing on both sound level and quality.
Hiroki Mori, Takeshi Osawa
wiley   +1 more source

Blind Source Separation via Time‐Frequency Localization on Sound Spectrogram for Environmental Sound Source Attribution

open access: yesCAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As urban sound environments grow more complex, environmental monitoring increasingly demands not just sound‐level measurement but also source attribution. Current source recognition techniques can identify which sources are present in a mixture, but cannot measure each source's energy contribution, making accountability impossible.
Rui Hu, Zhihao Wu, Yuxin Lin, Yong Xu
wiley   +1 more source

A Study of Soundscape Restoration in Office-Type Pocket Parks

open access: yesBuildings
High-density building environments and fast-paced working conditions in cities pose health challenges for office workers. Office-type pocket parks assume the social responsibility of providing restorative environments for office workers, and the ...
Yaping Wang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

TAXI, CHILLI AND MOBILE PARTY BRANCH: Reterritorialization of Migrants in Urban Villages, Shenzhen

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In China as well as in other countries, migrants often grapple with urban inequities by actively reshaping the functions and meanings of their environments. While acknowledging established frameworks such as place‐making and urban informality, this study adopts a complementary lens, framing migrants’ everyday practices as a process of ...
Xinrui Gao, Jennifer Day, Sun Sheng Han
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the relationship between the soundscape and the environment: A systematic review

open access: yesEcological Indicators
The soundscape encompasses all biological, geophysical, and anthropogenic sounds in an environment and serves as an important communication medium for biota.
Katie Turlington   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

NOCTURNAL INFORMALITY: Rethinking the Temporal Politics of Urban Informality

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban informality has long been theorized as a spatial condition of urban life—an expression of negotiation, improvisation, and survival within the uneven terrains of legality and governance. Yet this emphasis on space has obscured the temporalities through which informality is lived, governed, and contested. This essay develops the concept of
Elmond Bandauko
wiley   +1 more source

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