View on outdoor vegetation reduces noise annoyance for dwellers near busy roads

Renterghem, Timothy Van; Botteldooren, Dick

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.12.018

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“…This result agrees with previous work confirming the pleasant perception of vegetation (Hong & Jeon, 2013;Hong & Jeon, 2014;Van Renterghem & Botteldooren, 2016). The least pleasant visuals were the conventional (V1) and the whimsical (V4).…”

Section: Influence Of Sound On the Overall Urban Environmentsupporting

confidence: 93%

“…Natural features are indicators of tranquillity (Pheasant, Horoshenkov, Watts, & Barrett, 2008). The view on vegetation as seen from a living room's window facing a city ring road was shown to strongly reduce the selfreported noise annoyance (Van Renterghem & Botteldooren, 2016). Aylor found that there was a 7 dB difference in the perception of loudness between hemlock trees and a minimal fence obscuring an acoustic source (Aylor, 1977).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Using Virtual Reality for assessing the role of noise in the audio-visual design of an urban public space

Sánchez

Renterghem

sun

et al. 2017

Landscape and Urban Planning

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ABSTRACT:Sound planning is not often included in the urban design process despite the well-known audio-visual interactions of human perception. A methodology to compare the overall appreciation of future renovation alternatives of urban public spaces using Virtual Reality Technology is proposed. This method is applied to assess the role of noise in the overall appreciation of a walk on a bridge crossing a highway. The auralization is a dynamic 3D surround based on B-format recordings (ambisonics), filtered by means of full-wave numerical calculations obtaining the sound field behind noise barriers along the bridge's edge. Four different styles of visual street design including different noise barrier heights in combination with the 4 corresponding predicted sound fields were evaluated for their pleasantness by 71 normal-hearing participants on 4 separate days. Each day participants experienced all the visual environments with only one soundscape (to elude direct sound comparison) and anything related to sound was not mentioned in the first part of the experiment. Even in this non-focussed context, a statistically significant effect of the sound environment on the overall appreciation was found. In general, the pleasantness increases with traffic noise level reduction, but the visual design has a stronger impact. By mentioning the soundscape while introducing the evaluation, slightly lower (but statistically significantly different) pleasantness ratings were obtained. Instead of increasing noise barrier height, improving the visual design of a lower barrier seems more effective to increase pleasantness.Visual designs including vegetation strongly outperform others. The virtual experience was rated as immersive and realistic.3

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Section: Influence Of Sound On the Overall Urban Environmentsupporting

confidence: 93%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using Virtual Reality for assessing the role of noise in the audio-visual design of an urban public space

Sánchez

Renterghem

sun

et al. 2017

Landscape and Urban Planning

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“…There is increasing evidence of a reduction of adverse effects of noise exposure (annoyance, sleep, blood pressure) when the residential soundscape is judged of higher overall quality (quiet facades, quiet courtyards, visual attractiveness, green space, ecological features) (e.g., Dzhambov & Dimitrova, 2014;Van Renterghem & Botteldooren, 2016). In addition, however, positive valued soundscapes were associated with higher vitality, less need for quiet and greater satisfaction with access to quiet areas (Lercher, van Kamp, von Lindern, & Botteldooren, 2015).…”

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Ten questions on the soundscapes of the built environment

Kang

Aletta

Gjestland

et al. 2016

Building and Environment

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Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) eprints@whiterose.ac.uk https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Reuse Unless indicated otherwise, fulltext items are protected by copyright with all rights reserved. The copyright exception in section 29 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 allows the making of a single copy solely for the purpose of non-commercial research or private study within the limits of fair dealing. The publisher or other rights-holder may allow further reproduction and re-use of this version -refer to the White Rose Research Online record for this item. Where records identify the publisher as the copyright holder, users can verify any specific terms of use on the publisher's website. TakedownIf you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing eprints@whiterose.ac.uk including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request. Abstract: Soundscape research represents a paradigm shift from noise control policies towards a new multidisciplinary approach as it involves not only physical measurements but also the cooperation of humanity and social sciences to account for the diversity of soundscapes across countries and cultures, with more focus on how people actually experience the acoustic environments; and it considers environmental sounds as a 'resource' rather than a 'waste'. The ten questions presented in this paper range from the very basic definitions underlying the emerging soundscape 'science', to more applied topics about how to use soundscape as a design approach for the planning and management of the built environments. Although significant research activity has been conducted so far, there is still a need to systematically provide the underpinning science and practical guidance in soundscaping. Thus, the last question aims to identify the most crucial gaps in soundscape research and set the agenda for future advancements in the field.

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“…Noise attenuation devices which are stronger than those used in the urban areas, may be required to reduce the annoying effect of the intrusive noises emitted by the relatively intermittent vehicles, in a low background noise environment [3]. Greenery views and sea views are able to moderate human noise annoyance responses [4][5][6]. It has also been found that the visibility of noise sources can affect human noise annoyance (for instance, Zhang et al [7] and Aletta et al [8]).…”

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A Review on Natural Ventilation-enabling Façade Noise Control Devices for Congested High-Rise Cities

Tang

2017

Applied Sciences

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Abstract:This review summarizes the current status of the research and development of natural ventilation-enabling noise control devices for use on the façades of high-rise residential buildings in congested cities. These devices are important for a sustainable urbanized city, as they are supposed to offer good acoustical protection to citizens, allowing for an acceptable level of natural ventilation inside residential units; energy for mechanical ventilation can then be saved. From the information presented in the existing literature, it is concluded that protrusive devices, such as lintels and balconies, are not effective noise screening devices, even if they are installed with sound absorbers and/or reflectors, under the effect of city reverberation. On the contrary, plenum windows and similar structures, which are plenum structures with a staggered air inlet and outlet, are interesting alternatives that are worth rigorous considerations.

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View on outdoor vegetation reduces noise annoyance for dwellers near busy roads

Cited by 138 publications

References 40 publications

Using Virtual Reality for assessing the role of noise in the audio-visual design of an urban public space

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Ten questions on the soundscapes of the built environment

A Review on Natural Ventilation-enabling Façade Noise Control Devices for Congested High-Rise Cities

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