Urban form indicators as proxy on the noise exposure of buildings

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 76, Issue , 2014, Pages 366-376

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE VIANA DO CASTELO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Buildings; Exposure; Noise; Urban form

Indexed keywords

EXPOSURE; HIGHER NOISE LEVELS; NOISE; NOISE PREDICTIONS; NOISE PROPAGATION; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN FORM; URBAN INDICATORS;

BUILDINGS; NOISE POLLUTION;

FACADES;

EID: 84884894074     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2013.07.027     Document Type: Article

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