Comparison between the UK and Taiwan on the sound environment in urban residential areas

PLEA 2006 - 23rd International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Yu, C ^a   Kang, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic quality; Perception; Urban environment

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT; ACOUSTIC QUALITY; BUILDING TYPES; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CULTURAL FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; MEASUREMENT AND SIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS; RESIDENTIAL AREAS; SHEFFIELD; SOUND ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS SOFTWARE; STUDY SITES; TYPICAL URBAN; URBAN ACOUSTICS; URBAN AREAS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN TEXTURE;

ACOUSTICS; RESEARCH; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84865759951     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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