The ideal urban soundscape: Investigating the sound quality of French cities

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 945-951

  Guastavino, Catherine ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; SEMANTICS; URBAN PLANNING;

AUDITORY JUDGMENTS; PSYCHOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; SOUND QUALITY; SOUNDSCAPES;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 33845930214     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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