Soundscape Perception of Urban Recreational Green Space

Abstract

Urban recreational green space, in part because of accelerated urbanization, is becoming more important as part of a healthy urban life and being places of landscape experience. This paper aims to understand how soundscape perception in urban recreational green space can provide insight for design and management. The paper investigates factors that affect soundscape, the relationship between soundscape evaluation and landscape evaluation, and differences in sound preference between professional designers and users. The results show that general users prefer natural and melodies to road traffic noises, but they often perceive road traffic noises first and their perception sensitivity to natural sounds and melody is low; People’s sound preferences are affected by age, and behavior style; Soundscape evaluation is closely associated with landscape evaluation; And, general users’ preference of traffic, human sound, and melody was significantly higher than that of professional designers.

Keywords

City / Recreational Green Space / Soundscape / Sound Preference / Perception / Landscape Evaluation

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2016 Higher Education Press