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PLANNING HEALTHY AND QUIET CITIES THROUGH THE SOUNDSCAPE APPROACHDr. Antonella Radicchi, IPODI-Marie Curie Fellow, Technical University Berlin

Built-in Health: Designing for health in the public realm - Jellicoe 2017 | Bristol, November 2 2017 !

people

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2009-on Firenze Sound Map

2007 MIT Digital City Design Workshop: “Soundscapes Oltrarno”

2012, Book 2010, Ph.D.

2016-2018 Beyond the Noise: Open Source Soundscapes

2016-on Hush City mobile app

) “On the Sonic Image of the City. Soundscape Mapping and Design in the contemporary city”

BEYOND THE VISUAL PARADIGM: THE SOUNDSCAPE APPROACH TO CITY SENSE AND CITY DESIGN

2016 Soundscapes and Lighscapes of the night. Berlin/Florence

2015 Toscana Sound Map

ANTONELLA RADICCHI 2017 (C)

2018-on The Hush City Mobile Lab

QUIETNESS


IN EUROPE 125 MILLION EUROPEANS AFFECTED BY NOISE POLLUTION FROM ROAD TRAFFICData source:European Environment Agency, 2014Image source: Internet

NOTE that some of the images used here have no cleared copyright approvals: this has been prepared only for teaching purposes and must not be reproduced.

Data source: European Environment Agency, 2014


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STATE OF THE ART !2002 the Environmental Noise DirecWve 2002/49/EC introduces the definiWon of “quiet areas”, based on acousWcal criteria, without providing a common methodology to idenWfy and protect them. !2002-today Member States and scholars have experimented with diverse methods, developed on the municipality level and by means of European funded research projects. !2014 The European Environment Agency has pointed out that there is sWll the need for in-depth research in the field and has encouraged scholars to experiment with mixed approaches, by integraWng the soundscape approach. ! ANTONELLA RADICCHI 2017 (C)

The soundscape is a “perceptual construct”, consis?ng of the “acousWc environment as perceived or experienced and/or understood by a person or people, in context.” (Defini?on source:

ISO 2014/TC 43/SC 1)


The landscape is “an area, as

perceived by people, whose

character is the result of the

acWon and interacWon of

natural and/or human factors.”

(Defini?on source:

European Landscape Conven?on)

PEOPLE

CONTEXT

PERCEPTION

Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK (NYC)Image source: Internet

Prof. Schulte-Fortkamp (TU Berlin), NAUENER PLATZ IN BERLINImage source: Internet

The soundscape approach | best pracWces The landscape approach | best pracWces

WHAT IS QUIETNESS FOR PEOPLE? !“EVERYDAY QUIET AREAS” DEFINED AND EVALUATED THROUGH A POOL OF QUALITATIVE & QUANTITATIVE CRITERIA:

+ PEOPLE’S PREFERENCES+ ACCESSIBILITY+ SMALL SIZE (< 1HA)+ NEIGHBORHOOD SCALE+ THE WALKING DISTANCE PARADIGM+ THE HUMAN VOICE MODULE (RADICCHI 2017)

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THE “OPEN SOURCE SOUNDSCAPES” APPROACH A MIXED METHODOLOGY TO ANALYZE, ASSESS AND PLAN “EVERYDAY QUIET AREAS” IN CITIES


1) THE COMMUNITY IS THE EXPERT2) QUIETNESS IS A COMMONS 3) TECHNOLOGY IS THE MEDIUM !!

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!CHOICE OF THE AREA | 8 CRITERIA APPLIED 1) environmental jusWce index (Berlin Environmental

JusWce Atlas, ed. 2015); 2) posi?on; 3) size; 4)

morphology; 5) land use; 6) social diversity; 7)

proximity to quiet areas (Berlin Plan of Quiet Areas); 8)

soundscape quality.

THE PILOT STUDY

Heading source: The Guardian, March 19 2011


E.G. IN THE ANALYSES PHASE PEOPLE

ARE INVOLVED THROUGH 3 MEANS:

1. INFORMAL INTERVIEWS

2. GROUP SOUNDWALKS

3. SURVEYS BY USING HUSH CITY APP

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION


THE HUSH CITY APP A CITIZEN SCIENCE FREE APP TO MAP, EVALUATE, SHARE QUIET SPOTS IN CITIES.


Hush City app’s logo (C) A. Radicchi 2017

HUSH CITY APP

The number on the markers indicates the number of surveys made on the spot

!< screenshot of 42 datasets collected by people in the Reuterkiez (as of July 31 2017)

LEGEND: The colour scale reference is taken from the strategic Noise Map of Florence

85 DATASETS IN BERLIN42 DATASETS IN REUTERKIEZ


REUTERKIEZ/BERLIN < SCREENSHOT OF DATASET NO. 207 !EACH DATASET IS COMPOSED OF : + 1 AUDIO RECORDING + 1 SOUND PRESSURE LEVELS + 1 PICTURE + DATE & TIME + ADDRESS + USER FEEDBACK

The quesWonnaire is composed of 24 quesWons, arWculated in 3 parts: !1) SOUNDSCAPE ISSUES 2) BEHAVIORAL ISSUES 3) GENERAL ISSUES !Replies can be given by means of: mulWple choice, linear scale and free text raWng methods.

USER FEEDBACK


HUSH CITY APP | QUESTIONNAIRE - PART 1

EMOTIONAL RESPONSE

SOUND SOURCES

SEMANTIC ADJECTIVES

SENSE OF QUIETNESS

SOCIAL INTERACTION ORAL COMMUNICATION

IDENTITY SENSE OF PLACE ANTONELLA RADICCHI 2017 (C)

HUSH CITY APP | QUESTIONNAIRE - PART 2, 3

PEOPLE PRESENCE & ACTIVITIES

WEATHER CONDITIONS

VISUAL QUALITY

FREE COMMENTS

CLEANLINESS

MAINTENANCE

SENSE OF SECURITY

ACCESSIBILITY

PEOPLE STATUS


Word Cloud made with the answers to the Hush City app’s Ques?on 5: Enter one of the sounds that contributes in a posi2ve way to your sense of quietness


A SNEAK PEEK OF DATA COLLECTION AND EVALUATION

@ HUSH CITY APP > 300 DATASETS COLLECTED WORLDWIDE (85 IN BERLIN). !DATA EVALUATION LED TO A MORE COMPLEX UNDERSTANDING OF THE NOTION OF QUIETNESS IN CITIES, BEYOND THE COMMON ASSOCIATION WITH GREENERY AND THE DEFINITION BASED ON DECIBEL RATIO. !PEOPLE HAVE DESCRIBED “EVERYDAY QUIET AREAS” AS PLACES IN CITIES, WHICH FAVOR RELAXATION AND SOCIAL INTERACTION, AND WHICH ARE CHARACTERIZED BY A MIX OF NATURAL AND HUMAN SOUNDS. !THESE RESULTS CAN BE SAID TO BE ADVANCING SOUNDSCAPE THEORY AND THEY CAN BE APPLIED IN CITY PLANNING. !BUT HOW? !


THE REUTERKIEZ “EVERYDAY QUIET AREAS MAP” IN BERLIN

NOISE ACTIONS PLAN

MOBILITY PLAN

URBAN DESIGN PROJECTS

SCALE UP

IMPACT

COMMUNITIES

POPULATION

SAMPLE

TRANSFORMATION AREAS

BERLIN 2030

HUSH CITY APP’S DB+ SOUNDWALKS + INTERVIEWS

EVERYDAY QUIET AREAS MAP

EVERYDAY QUIET AREAS MASTERPLAN

FREE & OPEN SOURCE MULTI-LAYERED MAPSWEB BASED MAPS

EVALUATION PHASE

PLANNING PHASE

ANALYSES PHASE

THE “EVERYDAY QUIET AREAS ATLAS”: IMPLEMENTATION & IMPACT


TAKE HOME


GOALS & CHALLENGES

+ INTEGRATED PLANNING + SOUNDSCAPE + PUBLIC PARTICIPATION + OPEN DATA/PLATFORMS

“CREATING HEALTHY PLACES” (LANDSCAPE INSTITUTE POSITION PLACEMENT 2013) !HOW CAN WE MAKE SURE THAT HEALTHY PLACES WON’T TURN INTO GENTRIFIED AND EXCLUSIVE SPOTS?

RECOMMENDATIONS

>TO CREATE HEALTHY, QUIET & JUST PLACES !

THHANK YOU FOR LISTENING

“To my mind, sound[scape] study succeeds when it contextualizes aural experience in the rest of life” (K. Norman 2013)

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www.opensourcesoundscapes.org

www.antonellaradicchi.it

@firenzesoundmap

@HUSHCITYapp

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REFERENCES & MEDIA COVERAGE !Radicchi, A. (2017), “The HUSH CITY app. A new mobile applicaWon to crowdsource and assess "everyday quiet areas" in ciWes.” in Invisible Places. Proceedings of the InternaWonal Conference on Sound, Urbanism and the Sense of Place. !Radicchi, A. (2017), “Beyond the Noise: Open Source Soundscapes. A mixed methodology to analyse, evaluate and plan “everyday” quiet areas.” in Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 30 , 040005 (2017); doi: 10.1121/2.0000565 !hyp://www.opensourcesoundscapes.org/hush-city/ !hyp://www.opensourcesoundscapes.org/spread-the-word/press/

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