Urban indices as environmental noise indicators

Souza, Léa Cristina Lucas de; Giunta, Mariene Benutti

doi:10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2011.06.001

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“…In this context, landscape metrics, including parameters like building type, orientation and height, green space distribution, geometric features and densities are deployed to analyze the relation between urban structure and noise. Thus, it is strongly suggested that urban properties are a proxy to noise burdens [128][129][130][131][132][133][134]. Even though these studies suggest a strong relationship between the urban inventory and noise levels, a reverse extrapolation of noise exposure from easily accessible geographic data on large spatial scale have yet to be developed.…”

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Remote Sensing in Environmental Justice Research—A Review

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Wurm

Dech

et al. 2019

IJGI

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Human health is known to be affected by the physical environment. Various environmental influences have been identified to benefit or challenge people’s physical condition. Their heterogeneous distribution in space results in unequal burdens depending on the place of living. In addition, since societal groups tend to also show patterns of segregation, this leads to unequal exposures depending on social status. In this context, environmental justice research examines how certain social groups are more affected by such exposures. Yet, analyses of this per se spatial phenomenon are oftentimes criticized for using “essentially aspatial” data or methods which neglect local spatial patterns by aggregating environmental conditions over large areas. Recent technological and methodological developments in satellite remote sensing have proven to provide highly detailed information on environmental conditions. This narrative review therefore discusses known influences of the urban environment on human health and presents spatial data and applications for analyzing these influences. Furthermore, it is discussed how geographic data are used in general and in the interdisciplinary research field of environmental justice in particular. These considerations include the modifiable areal unit problem and ecological fallacy. In this review we argue that modern earth observation data can represent an important data source for research on environmental justice and health. Especially due to their high level of spatial detail and the provided large-area coverage, they allow for spatially continuous description of environmental characteristics. As a future perspective, ongoing earth observation missions, as well as processing architectures, ensure data availability and applicability of ’big earth data’ for future environmental justice analyses.

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Remote Sensing in Environmental Justice Research—A Review

Weigand

Wurm

Dech

et al. 2019

IJGI

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“…However, several studies have focused on the modeling of air pollution and modeling noise in different urban forms [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17].…”

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“…Souza and Giunta [17] modeled in an Artificial Neural Networks platform the influence of FSI on the sound environment of streets. The identification of the significance of the relationship between FSI and urban noise was the main output of the research.…”

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Urban form indicators as proxy on the noise exposure of buildings

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The present paper aims to address the problems of the urban environment as an area of interaction between urban forms and urban noise. This interaction is intended to be monitored using urban indicators, by comparing the effects of noise propagation using models of urban forms. The model of noise prediction allowed developing noise studies in facades, resulting in noise levels in a calculation grid located in the building facades. The study will allow the creation of different scenarios and anticipate as early as in the preliminary building design phase, which facades would be exposed to higher noise levels. The effects of noise in facades can then be minimized in advance, by adjusting the layout of the urban typology.

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“…SNM is an averaged map of noise generated into environments by various groups of sources. It enables holistic evaluation of a level of noise exposure within an urban area, provides the possibility to determine the origins of such phenomena as well as the opportunity to prepare general prognoses of alterations of its levels (Asensio et al, 2009, Fyhri and Aasvang, 2010, Souza and Giunta, 2011.…”

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Implementation of the Eu Noise Directive in Process of Urban Planning in Poland

Kwiecień

Szopińska

2013

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:In Poland spatial planning policies are described by a system of planning documents controlled by act of Spatial Planning and Land Development of 27 March 2003. Sustainable development principle and spatial order form is the basis of spatial planning efforts. In the territory of Poland the manner of urban space management is defined by a planning document called Local Land Use Plan (LLUP). In a LLUP some issues are arranged, such as the purpose of a given area, location of public purpose investments, land development conditions. When analysing the development process of Polish cities, an obvious conclusion emerges about the lack of complex studies and researches of the environment concerning the issue of acoustic climate. The procedures of development of an LLUP involve merely a general diagnosis of an environment excluding measured values of pollution, including noise levels.

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Urban indices as environmental noise indicators

Cited by 22 publications

References 13 publications

Remote Sensing in Environmental Justice Research—A Review

Remote Sensing in Environmental Justice Research—A Review

Urban form indicators as proxy on the noise exposure of buildings

Implementation of the Eu Noise Directive in Process of Urban Planning in Poland

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