Supporting acoustic environment design in spatial planning of urban areas

Waldemar Paszkowski

The planned acoustic environment is a significant issue connected with landscaping of urban areas. These spaces are developed in the processes of spatial planning. In general, spatial planning may be oriented towards developing new spaces or adapting already developed spaces. Making use of acoustic environment planning at the early stages of spatial planning permits the environment features to be developed in the best possible way. The acoustic environment of urban areas can be described using data originating directly from these areas. In particular these are data concerning the following: land topography, the layout of spatial structures, the features of the structures and sound sources. A complete description of a sound environment should also include the opinions/judgments of the residents. This article deals with the problems of taking into consideration the subjective impressions of sound reception experienced by the residents in supporting acoustic environment design. The presented method of supporting acoustic environment design as a problem of spatial planning of urban areas includes the use of GIS tools. Design support in this method consists in linking the following problems: acoustic maps, spatial planning and acoustic design.

Domaines: Acoustique [physics.class-ph]

Waldemar Paszkowski. Supporting acoustic environment design in spatial planning of urban areas. Acoustics 2012, Apr 2012, Nantes, France. ⟨hal-00810716⟩