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Assessment of Urban Soundscapes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2011

Solène Marry
Solène Marry*
Affiliation:
Laboratory Pacte (Public policies, Political action, Territories) Territoire UMR CNRS 5194, Town Planning Institute of Grenoble; CSTB (Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment) Grenoble; 24 rue Joseph Fourier, 38400 Saint-Martin d'Hères, FRANCE
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E-mails: solene.marry@cstb.fr and smarry@urba-co.fr
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Abstract

This article presents the different tools for assessing soundscapes within urban public spaces and develops in particular the use of the sonic mind map. We will successively define the notions of sonic perception and representation, and sonic and spatial evaluation; we will approach the concept of soundscape and finally give details about the sonic mind-map tool. Through this tool, the soundscape of urban public spaces can be understood, not through speech analysis, but through spatial representations of memorised sonic ambiances.

Investigation results based among other things on sonic mind-map analyses explain the significance of sonic spatialisation and of the sound source distance in urban soundscape assessment. Using the sonic mind map to analyse the sonic representations associated with certain urban spaces seems to be relevant for researchers in space sciences or even for urban planners.

Type
Research Article
Information
Organised Sound , Volume 16 , Issue 3: Sound, Listening and Place I , December 2011 , pp. 245 - 255
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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