Designing Care Spaces in Urban Areas

Agnieszka Ozga (), Przemysław Frankiewicz, Natalia Frankowska, Beata Gibała-Kapecka and Tomasz Kapecki
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Agnieszka Ozga: Department of Mechanics and Vibroacoustics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics, AGH University of Krakow, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
Przemysław Frankiewicz: Department of Mechanics and Vibroacoustics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics, AGH University of Krakow, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
Natalia Frankowska: Department of Mechanics and Vibroacoustics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics, AGH University of Krakow, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
Beata Gibała-Kapecka: Department of Interior Architecture Design, Faculty of Interior Design, Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, 31-157 Krakow, Poland
Tomasz Kapecki: Department of Architecture of Workplaces, Faculty of Architecture, Sports and Services, Cracow University of Technology (CUT), 31-155 Krakow, Poland

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 23, 1-23

Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach to sustainable urban revitalization. Care Spaces are defined, and an area selected for revitalization is described. Transformation of city space is of fundamental importance for everyday life, its comfort as regards the functional aspect as well as the psychological and cultural ones. The presented projects are in accord with 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the conception of Baukultur. Both approaches tend to create well designed environment that support health and well-being of people and other living creatures while taking into account cultural aspects in design and construction. Focusing on the combination of soundscape analysis with design elements. To monitor the soundscape, a custom database of urban sound recordings was constructed, and key analytical methods such as Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC), feature extraction, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), and permutation of feature importance were applied. The effectiveness of these algorithms was confirmed through field investigations.

Keywords: sustainable urban revitalization; sustainable city planning; soundscape studies; urban soundscape planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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