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What are the Current Priorities and Challenges for (Urban) Soundscape Research?

Francesco Aletta and Jieling Xiao
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Francesco Aletta: Department of Information Technology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Jieling Xiao: School of Architecture and Design, Birmingham City University, Birmingham B47BD, UK

Challenges, 2018, vol. 9, issue 1, 1-11

Abstract: Soundscape research is attracting an ever-increasing worldwide interest from different disciplines and stakeholders. This brief commentary paper aims at offering some insights into the new directions this research (and practice) field will likely go, in the near future. For this purpose, eleven early-career soundscape researchers and practitioners were approached and asked to provide a response to the question “ What are the current priorities and challenges for soundscape research? ” Five recurring themes were identified in the participants’ statements. A major concern of the interviewed sample is the need to bridge the academic and practice sides of the soundscape community, in order to better position this discipline in the broader framework of (urban) sound planning and design.

Keywords: soundscape; acoustic environment; urban planning; multisensory perception; early-career researchers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A00 C00 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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