The World Health Organization (WHO) has made considerable efforts to reduce citizens’ exposure community noise in urban and suburban areas [...]

Sound has always been a material issue in prisons, whether it be connection with sonic surveillance, the “silent cell,” or insistence of sound (excessive noise, counter-carceral music making). This article asks: How and when does carceral soundscape become litigable issue? Our opens discussion challenges involved attempting to study ambiance penitentiary through medium written documents propose...

Sounds are very important in our daily life with a twofold attitude for any citizen. In one hand, when music, sounds are considered as enhancing the quality of life, but in the other hand, traffic noise deteriorates the quality of life. Due to those contradictory characteristics, the new concept of soundscape tries to combine both positive and negative aspects of the auditory environment. Prese...

This theoretical paper addresses the cognitive functions via which quiet and in general pleasurable sounds promote and annoying sounds impede health. The article comprises a literature analysis and an interpretation of how the bidirectional influence of appraising the environment and the feelings of the perceiver can be understood in terms of core affect and motivation. This conceptual basis al...

A number of studies have been initiated to explore how to improve the soundscape quality in urban parks. However, good soundscape quality in parks cannot be provided without a thorough understanding of the complex relationships among sound, environment, and individuals. As acoustic comfort is considered to be an important outcome of soundscape quality, this study investigates the relative impac...

This paper focuses on soundscape planning, or acoustic design, in the planning and management of open space in both urban and non-urban areas. It is based on notions, promoted over several decades, that the acoustic aspects of open space can, and should be, subject to design in the same way as are the visual dimensions. The current paradigm for the management of the outdoor acoustic environment...

Contextual perceptions have a complicated effect on soundscapes in urban open public spaces. The objective of this study was to explore the systematic relationship between contextual factors and soundscape evaluations spaces with recreational function. Six areas northern China were selected, questionnaire survey conducted evaluate satisfaction soundscapes. results showed that dominant sound sou...