The influence of urban form on facades noise levels

WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 125-135

  Oliveira, Marta F ^a   Silva, Lígia T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Noise indicators; Urban form; Urban indicators; Urban noise

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; NOISE; NOISE POLLUTION; SOUND PROPAGATION; STRUCTURAL COMPONENT; TYPOLOGY; URBAN AREA; URBAN MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 79961229446     PISSN: 17905079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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