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What are the Current Priorities and Challenges for (Urban) Soundscape Research?

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  • Francesco Aletta

    (Department of Information Technology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium)

  • Jieling Xiao

    (School of Architecture and Design, Birmingham City University, Birmingham B47BD, UK)

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Soundscape research is attracting an ever-increasing worldwide interest from different disciplines and stakeholders. This brief commentary paper aims at offering some insights into the new directions this research (and practice) field will likely go, in the near future. For this purpose, eleven early-career soundscape researchers and practitioners were approached and asked to provide a response to the question “ What are the current priorities and challenges for soundscape research? ” Five recurring themes were identified in the participants’ statements. A major concern of the interviewed sample is the need to bridge the academic and practice sides of the soundscape community, in order to better position this discipline in the broader framework of (urban) sound planning and design.

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  • Francesco Aletta & Jieling Xiao, 2018. "What are the Current Priorities and Challenges for (Urban) Soundscape Research?," Challenges, MDPI, vol. 9(1), pages 1-11, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jchals:v:9:y:2018:i:1:p:16-:d:138144
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    1. Jieling Xiao & Francesco Aletta & Islah Ali-Maclachlan, 2022. "On the Opportunities of the Soundscape Approach to Revitalise Acoustics Training in Undergraduate Architectural Courses," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(4), pages 1-11, February.
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    4. Mercede Erfanian & Andrew J. Mitchell & Jian Kang & Francesco Aletta, 2019. "The Psychophysiological Implications of Soundscape: A Systematic Review of Empirical Literature and a Research Agenda," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(19), pages 1-20, September.
    5. Simone Torresin & Francesco Aletta & Francesco Babich & Ethan Bourdeau & Jack Harvie-Clark & Jian Kang & Lisa Lavia & Antonella Radicchi & Rossano Albatici, 2020. "Acoustics for Supportive and Healthy Buildings: Emerging Themes on Indoor Soundscape Research," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(15), pages 1-27, July.
    6. Joo-Young Hong & Keng Hua Chong, 2023. "Designing Public Soundscapes through Social Architecture and Soundscape Approaches: Reflective Review of Architectural Design Studio," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(16), pages 1-24, August.
    7. Francesco Aletta & Tin Oberman & Jian Kang, 2018. "Associations between Positive Health-Related Effects and Soundscapes Perceptual Constructs: A Systematic Review," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 15(11), pages 1-15, October.

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