In:
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Vol. 138, No. 3_Supplement ( 2015-09-01), p. 1750-1750
Kurzfassung:
The importance of rural soundscape has been recently recognized for the recreational and amenity value, where man-made noise is at a low level and the dominance of natural sounds promotes sound preference, but there is a lack of studies on the sound preference of residents in the villages of China, which are undergoing a fast development in urbanization. In this study, a questionnaire survey was undertaken at 36 villages of northeast regions, representing all major soundscape types. The results show that among the individual factors, age, education level, and landscape environment are more significant than the factor of gender, in terms of influence on sound preference. With increasing age, the sound preference of traffic and mechanical sound has a tendency of increase and then decrease, whereas the tendency for human voice, natural, and melody sound is opposite. With a higher education level, the sound preference of traffic, mechanical sound, and human voice decreases, and on the contrary, sound preference for natural and melody sound increases. However, the evaluation of natural and melody sound is lower in better landscape environment, which is perhaps due to the residents’ higher requirements in soundscapes corresponding to the landscapes.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
0001-4966
,
1520-8524
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Publikationsdatum:
2015
ZDB Id:
1461063-2
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