Taming the Noise: Soundscape and Livability in a Technocratic City-State

On the relationships between auditory and visual factors in a residential environment context: A SEM approach

“…Several approaches have used SEM to discover relationships between pleasantness and eventfulness but also specify visual constructs such as satisfaction and visual quality (Mouratidis, 2020;Mouratidis and Yiannakou, 2022). However, to the best of our knowledge, none has examined and quantified the relationship between Pleasantness and Liveability, and only a theoretical framework has been developed (Aulia, 2016;Amir et al, 2021). This lack of knowledge is even more notorious in the Latin American context, as only a few studies have attempted to conceptualise multidimensional sensory indicators when exploring residential environments (Kogan et al, 2017(Kogan et al, , 2018Rey-Gozalo and Barrigón-Morillas, 2017;Rey-Gozalo et al, 2018).…”

“…Although there are studies examining associations between auditory and visual latent variables, we have not found prior theorydriven considerations to jointly explore the relationships between noise-Sensitivity, sound-Pleasantness and visual-Liveability (Aulia, 2016;Amir et al, 2021). Latent constructs, such as noise-Sensitivity, have been traditionally analysed jointly with person-related attributes (i.e., socio-demographic information) and noise-annoyance (Van Kamp et al, 2004).…”

“…The effects of auditory and visual factors in different urban contexts have also been demonstrated. However, only a limited discussion is available concerning the influence of Pleasantness as an auditory factor and latent visual constructs such as Liveability (Van Kamp et al, 2003;Amir et al, 2021;Mouratidis and Yiannakou, 2022), especially in a Latin American context. Conversely, Yong et al (2021) highlight that objective sound-visual components correlate with urban auditory factors.…”