Appraising the sonic environment of urban parks using the soundscape dimension of visually impaired people

Christina E. Mediastika, Anugrah S. Sudarsono, Luciana Kristanto, Gunawan Tanuwidjaja, Rony G. Sunaryo and Rully Damayanti

International Journal of Urban Sciences, 2020, vol. 24, issue 2, 216-241

Abstract: The study aimed to investigate the specific soundscape dimension of visually impaired people and to learn about the possibly unique soundscape dimension elicited by the hearing sense alone. The soundscape dimension of the visually impaired will be used as a reference for improving urban parks to accommodate users inclusively. A semantic-scale questionnaire survey of sighted and visually impaired people in both in-situ and off-site modes was performed. Data were extracted using principal component analysis with polychoric correlations, which produced three soundscape dimensions elicited from the sighted and six from the visually impaired. In sum, evaluation of the park’s sonic environment identified the eventfulness soundscape dimension and the pleasantness soundscape dimension as being the most prominent for visually impaired and sighted people, respectively. HighlightsAn entirely aural soundscape method by visually impaired people is used to appraise urban parks.Soundscape dimension of eventfulness is the most prominent for visually impaired people.Visually impaired people extract more information from the acoustic environment.Visually impaired people sense the danger and direction of a space from sound.

Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/12265934.2020.1713863 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:rjusxx:v:24:y:2020:i:2:p:216-241

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/rjus20

DOI: 10.1080/12265934.2020.1713863

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Urban Sciences is currently edited by Dongjoo Park and Mack Joong Choi

More articles in International Journal of Urban Sciences from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().