While urban sound management often focuses on sound as a nuisance, soundscape
research suggests that proactive design approaches involving sound art installations can …

Most urban professionals (planners, designers, policy-makers) are not trained in acoustics
or soundscapes. However, the decisions that they make often shape the sound …

Within the current urbanised society, the call for calm and quiet areas seems more pressing
than ever. Such tranquil environments like the Woonerf streets in the Netherlands allow a …

These regulatory processes, mechanisms and organizations vary across continents,
countries and even regions, and this chapter can only provide a limited overview of the …

This chapter focuses on different aspects of sound interaction ranging from how we hear,
how we create, and the technologies that we use to interact with sound in different contexts …

The sound environment directly affects human health and wellbeing. Essential to
soundscape design, management and implementation in spatial planning are people's …

We present a reflection on three prototypes of real-time interactive soundscape simulators
aimed at supporting participatory urban sound planning and interventions. These prototypes …

Urban soundscapes reflect life and behaviours in a city as they evolve over time. How can
we capture and render these dynamics for soundscape design and evaluation purposes? A …

A soundscape approach to design, despite its long existence as a topic of research, is still
radically novel to the public and private sector and remains an untapped resource for most …

Urban soundscape planning remains a challenge to many due in part to a scarcity of
soundscape design tools. While many sound planning tools exist, they are generally geared …