Moshona, Cleopatra Christina;
Fiebig, André;
Aletta, Francesco;
Chen, Xiaochao;
Kang, Jian;
Mitchell, Andrew;
Oberman, Tin;
(2024)
A framework to characterize and classify soundscape design practices based on grounded theory.
Noise Mapping
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, Article 20240002. 10.1515/noise-2024-0002.
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Abstract
In recent years, various stakeholders and political decision-makers have recognized the significance of high-quality urban sound environments, stressing the need for user-centered trajectories. Despite the rising interest in this field, the soundscape approach has not yet fully permeated urban planning and design, possibly due to a lack of comprehensible guidelines on how to implement and curate successful soundscape designs, attributed to on-going developments on this subject. In the course of the Catalogue of Soundscape Interventions (CSI) Project, a taxonomy of eight dimensions was developed to serve as an orientation aid for practitioners, describing important aspects of soundscape-related measures that can be used as a brief to facilitate communication between authorities, consultants, and researchers. This study describes the theoretical framework and, in particular, the sequential coding process involved in deriving these dimensions, which is based on grounded theory. It lists observations and limitations of the resulting taxonomy and builds upon these findings to critically review and revisit existing nomenclature and concepts. Finally, a qualitative distinction in the form of a design pyramid according to ascending levels of epistemic rigor is proposed, to differentiate between documented practices, which may serve as a reference point for future harmonization and standardization.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | A framework to characterize and classify soundscape design practices based on grounded theory |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1515/noise-2024-0002 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1515/noise-2024-0002 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2024. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | soundscape design strategies; soundscape interventions; grounded theory; pyramid; ISO/TS 12913-4 |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10192246 |
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