Effects of socio-economic indicators on perceptions of urban acoustic environments in Chinese megacities

Xie, Hui; Ge, Yuzhe; Luo, Fa

doi:10.1177/1420326x20961802

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“…An estimated 60,000 disability-adjusted life years are lost in western Europe through ischaemic heart disease due to exposure to environmental noise (WHO, 2011). For more than a decade, noise pollution has been a major urban environmental problem in China (Xie et al, 2020). According to the '2020 China Environmental Noise Prevention and Control Annual Report', there were 202,378 environmental noise complaints in 2019, accounting for 38.1% of the total environmental complaints.…”

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Noise exposure of the residential areas close to urban expressways in a high-rise mountainous city

Xie

2021

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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Urban expressways can generate excessive noise in the surrounding urban areas, and it tends to be more complex in mountainous cities, due to the undulating terrain, dense population and compact urban structures. This article aims to investigate the objective acoustic environment and road traffic noise exposure, including the noisy evaluation, annoyance and effect of roadside apartments in residential areas close to urban expressways in the high-density, high-rise, mountainous city of Chongqing. Three housing estates were selected for a series of field measurements, questionnaire surveys and noise mapping. There was a significant negative correlation between night-time noise levels and the distances to the urban expressway ( p < 0.01). Moreover, the differences between the daytime and night-time noise levels were generally insignificant (0.7 to 3.6 dBA) at the roadside locations. Differences in reaction to noise exposure in a variety of both person-related and housing condition variables were found, especially between roadside and non-roadside locations or residents. In addition, 75.0% of roadside residents identified the traffic noise as ‘very’ or ‘extremely’ annoying, and 66.7% of them regarded the acoustic environment as the priority environmental factor that needs to be improved. Difference in the ‘bedroom-window orientation’ had a significant effect on subjective noise evaluation. Rectangular-shaped apartments along the roadside obtain better noise reduction capacities than tower-blocks through the simulation. The acoustic performance of road cuttings, as an appropriately designed earth embankment, is improved along with deeper vertical alignment, and slope angles of 30° and 75° should be avoided.

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Noise exposure of the residential areas close to urban expressways in a high-rise mountainous city

Xie

2021

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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“…As for Asian countries except for Japan, Nguyen et al [51] in Vietnam and Hong et al [48] in South Korea, reported representative exposure-annoyance relationships related to transportation noise, using social-acoustic survey data accumulated in each country. In China as well, Guoqing et al [52], Zhang and Ma [53], and Xie et al [54] reported community response to aircraft noise, high-speed railway noises, and road traffic noise, respectively. In the future it is expected that more useful findings, including the effects of non-acoustic factors (e.g., economic factors and topology [54]), can be obtained if the accumulation of data is further advanced and representative exposure-annoyance relationships in each country can be compared.…”

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“…In China as well, Guoqing et al [52], Zhang and Ma [53], and Xie et al [54] reported community response to aircraft noise, high-speed railway noises, and road traffic noise, respectively. In the future it is expected that more useful findings, including the effects of non-acoustic factors (e.g., economic factors and topology [54]), can be obtained if the accumulation of data is further advanced and representative exposure-annoyance relationships in each country can be compared.…”

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Representative Exposure–Annoyance Relationships Due to Transportation Noises in Japan

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This paper focuses on clarifying the relationship between noise exposure and the prevalence of highly annoyed people due to transportation noise in Japan. The authors accumulated 34 datasets, which were provided by Socio-Acoustic Survey Data Archive and derived from the other surveys conducted in Japan. All the datasets include the following micro-data: demographic factors, exposure, and annoyance data associated with specific noise sources. We performed secondary analyses using micro-data and established the relationships between noise exposure (Lden) and the percentage of highly annoyed people (%HA) for the following noise source: road traffic, conventional railway, Shinkansen railway, civil aircraft, and military aircraft noises. Among the five transportation noises, %HA for the military aircraft noise is the highest, followed by civil aircraft noise and Shinkansen railway noise. The %HA for conventional railway noise was higher than that for road traffic noise. To validate the representativeness of the exposure–response curves, we have discussed factors affecting the difference in annoyance. In addition, comparing the Japanese relationship with that shown in the “Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region,” we revealed that Japanese annoyance is higher than the WHO-reported annoyance.

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“…The design of the built environment plays a significant role in shaping the human experience. 1–6 Blesser and Salter 7 stated that the human experience is shaped by interaction with the environment: “As human beings, we interact with both our social and our physical environment by using all our senses. .…”

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The impact of the acoustic environment on human emotion and experience: A case study of worship spaces

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People’s interactions with the environment shape their experiences. Thus, understanding these interactions is critical to enhancing human well-being. Aural attributes play a significant role in shaping the perception of space in addition to visual attributes. It is well known that sounds evoke an emotional response, but less is known about how the acoustic characteristics of environments reinforce such an emotional impact. By adopting virtual reality as a platform for recreating 3D sounds and 360° visuals of built environments of worship spaces as case studies, this study aims to investigate the influence of the acoustic environment considering audiovisual congruency on enhancing the human experience through self-report and physiological response analysis. It also examines the role of cultural background in terms of familiarity with the acoustic environment. The convergent mixed-methods approach, merging both quantitative and qualitative analysis, provides a deep understanding of the role of the acoustic environment in enhancing the auditory experience. The results show that the acoustic environment and audiovisual congruency amplify the intensity of the emotional impact, and the amplification of the impact can vary depending on the acoustic environment of the building. They also reveal that familiarity with sound and acoustic characteristics can increase this impact.

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Effects of socio-economic indicators on perceptions of urban acoustic environments in Chinese megacities

Cited by 7 publications

References 33 publications

Noise exposure of the residential areas close to urban expressways in a high-rise mountainous city

Noise exposure of the residential areas close to urban expressways in a high-rise mountainous city

Representative Exposure–Annoyance Relationships Due to Transportation Noises in Japan

The impact of the acoustic environment on human emotion and experience: A case study of worship spaces

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