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Numéro d'OCLC
1086267413
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Auteur
Steele, Daniel,
Titre
Bridging the gap from soundscape research to urban planning and design practice : how do professionals conceptualize, work with, and seek information about sound?
Diplôme
Ph. D. -- McGill University, 2018
Éditeur
[Montreal] : McGill University Libraries, [2018]
Description
1 online resource
Notes
Thesis supervisor: Catherine Guastavino (Supervisor).
Includes bibliographical references.
Résumé
"A quiet city is not necessarily an interesting or successful one. The soundscape approach, which implies that the sonic environment can have positive and negative aspects, applies to a wide range of urban scales, from individual buildings and parks to the entire city; the approach also applies to plans, designs, and decisions made both before and after an intervention is done. Soundscapes contribute to a sense of place and encourage activities appropriate for the environment (e.g. marketplace sounds encouraging conversation and purchasing). Yet, despite the quickly growing body of evidence supporting the potential for improved urban sound quality, virtually no world cities are adopting soundscape planning and design initiatives in earnest, reinforcing a research-practice gap on urban sound. The gap is widened by differences in vocabulary, training, conceptualizations, resources, and shared literature. Shifting the focus from "city users" to "city makers", this study aims at understanding the ways in which professionals of the built environment (PBEs) conceptualize and integrate soundscape concerns in their everyday practices. Twenty-two PBEs from six countries in Europe and North America and from both public and private sectors were interviewed in a semi-structured format in four parts: (1) questions about the workplace and daily responsibilities, and a listing of technical factors key to the participants' work (e.g. historic preservation); (2) in-depth conceptual discussion on two factors from (1), one sound-related and one chosen at random; (3) setting the same two factors in context, i.e. how they were integrated in a recently completed project and one in progress; and (4) questions on information sources, demographic details, and a debriefing. Participants reported a responsibility to consider and integrate many technical factors in their work, of which a sound-related factor was always one. In terms of the way urban sound is considered, four primary conceptualizations emerged ordered by the extent to which they were described as being interrelated with other technical factors: noise as level; sound as mediation; noise as environmental pollutant; and sound as opportunity. Relevant participant characteristics affecting soundscape conceptualizations included organization size, location of work, and whether they identified as planners or designers. People were heavily relied on as information sources, and their strategies to access specialized knowledge depended on the size of their organization, among other variables. Implications are discussed for ways to bridge described gaps between the academic research on soundscape and urban planning and design practice, particularly through resources that are sensitive to contexts of work and the other identified variables."--
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Sujet
Information Studies