Urban soundscapes: a quasi-experiment in landscape architecture

Landscape Research

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 481-494

  Cerwén, Gunnar ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

design; Landscape architecture; noise screen; quasi experiment; soundscape; speaker installation; square; urban

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; NOISE; PUBLIC SPACE; URBAN DESIGN;

HEDERA;

EID: 84954288799     PISSN: 01426397     EISSN: 14699710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2015.1117062     Document Type: Article

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