A positive soundscape evaluation tool

8th European Conference on Noise Control 2009, EURONOISE 2009 - Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics

Volumn 31, Issue PART 3, 2009, Pages

  Davies, William J ^a   Adams, Mags D ^a   Bruce, Neil S ^a   Cain, Rebecca ^b   Jennings, Paul ^b   Carlyle, Angus ^c   Cusack, Peter ^c   Hume, Ken ^d   Plack, Chris ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c University of the Arts   (United Kingdom)

^d MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SOUNDS; EVALUATION TOOL; SOUNDSCAPES; URBAN DESIGN; USER BEHAVIOUR;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; ACOUSTICS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; URBAN PLANNING;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84864663986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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