Residents’ Preferences to Multiple Sound Sources in Urban Park: Integrating Soundscape Measurements and Semantic Differences
Urban parks provide their residents with a space for activities and interactions, and soundscapes play an important role in influencing the residents’ sense of experience of the park environment, with the result that the preferences of residents regarding multiple sound sources can be used as the ba...
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| author | Yuan Gong Chuyun Cui Mengmeng Cai Zehao Dong Zheng Zhao Aihua Wang |
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| description | Urban parks provide their residents with a space for activities and interactions, and soundscapes play an important role in influencing the residents’ sense of experience of the park environment, with the result that the preferences of residents regarding multiple sound sources can be used as the basis of improving the soundscape quality and optimizing the function of urban parks. Using Shanghai Century Park as the research area, this study focused on the residents’ preference to multiple sound sources based on registered residence differences, and comprehensively used the semantic differential method, importance-performance analysis model, and multinomial logit model to conduct quantitative research on urban park soundscapes and combined the measurement results of the soundscape with the residents’ perception and preference. The results showed that the artificial sounds in Century Park were noisy during the morning and evening peak, while the human sounds were noisy when residents gathered in the park. There was a close relationship between the favorability and subjective loudness of urban park soundscapes, and the residents’ perceptions of urban park soundscapes substantially differed in terms of loudness, tone, and sense of belonging, whereas the differences in the perception of timbre, coverage, and sound source distance were relatively small. Furthermore, it is necessary to enhance the role of natural sounds as well as control the main noise-producing sound sources so that various sounds in the park will not interfere with each other; the optimization of soundscapes should also focus on the residents’ different soundscape preferences due to their individual characteristics. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-aefc62dee11748698bfa7edecd6f63802023-11-24T04:42:40ZengMDPI AGForests1999-49072022-10-011311175410.3390/f13111754Residents’ Preferences to Multiple Sound Sources in Urban Park: Integrating Soundscape Measurements and Semantic DifferencesYuan Gong0Chuyun Cui1Mengmeng Cai2Zehao Dong3Zheng Zhao4Aihua Wang5College of Tourism, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, ChinaSchool of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, ChinaShanghai Institute of Tourism, Shanghai 201418, ChinaCollege of Tourism, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, ChinaCollege of Tourism, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, ChinaForeign Environmental Cooperation Center, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Beijing 100035, ChinaUrban parks provide their residents with a space for activities and interactions, and soundscapes play an important role in influencing the residents’ sense of experience of the park environment, with the result that the preferences of residents regarding multiple sound sources can be used as the basis of improving the soundscape quality and optimizing the function of urban parks. Using Shanghai Century Park as the research area, this study focused on the residents’ preference to multiple sound sources based on registered residence differences, and comprehensively used the semantic differential method, importance-performance analysis model, and multinomial logit model to conduct quantitative research on urban park soundscapes and combined the measurement results of the soundscape with the residents’ perception and preference. The results showed that the artificial sounds in Century Park were noisy during the morning and evening peak, while the human sounds were noisy when residents gathered in the park. There was a close relationship between the favorability and subjective loudness of urban park soundscapes, and the residents’ perceptions of urban park soundscapes substantially differed in terms of loudness, tone, and sense of belonging, whereas the differences in the perception of timbre, coverage, and sound source distance were relatively small. Furthermore, it is necessary to enhance the role of natural sounds as well as control the main noise-producing sound sources so that various sounds in the park will not interfere with each other; the optimization of soundscapes should also focus on the residents’ different soundscape preferences due to their individual characteristics.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/13/11/1754soundscapeurban parkregistered residenceimportance-performance analysissemantic differential method |
| spellingShingle | Yuan Gong Chuyun Cui Mengmeng Cai Zehao Dong Zheng Zhao Aihua Wang Residents’ Preferences to Multiple Sound Sources in Urban Park: Integrating Soundscape Measurements and Semantic Differences Forests soundscape urban park registered residence importance-performance analysis semantic differential method |
| title | Residents’ Preferences to Multiple Sound Sources in Urban Park: Integrating Soundscape Measurements and Semantic Differences |
| title_full | Residents’ Preferences to Multiple Sound Sources in Urban Park: Integrating Soundscape Measurements and Semantic Differences |
| title_fullStr | Residents’ Preferences to Multiple Sound Sources in Urban Park: Integrating Soundscape Measurements and Semantic Differences |
| title_full_unstemmed | Residents’ Preferences to Multiple Sound Sources in Urban Park: Integrating Soundscape Measurements and Semantic Differences |
| title_short | Residents’ Preferences to Multiple Sound Sources in Urban Park: Integrating Soundscape Measurements and Semantic Differences |
| title_sort | residents preferences to multiple sound sources in urban park integrating soundscape measurements and semantic differences |
| topic | soundscape urban park registered residence importance-performance analysis semantic differential method |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/13/11/1754 |
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