The Rhythm of the Urban Soundscape

2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (9) ◽  
pp. 11-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bert De Coensel ◽  
Dick Botteldooren
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Temporal Structure ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Noise Annoyance ◽  
Influence Of Noise

The influence of noise on the quality of the urban living environment has traditionally been studied focusing on negative effects on man, such as noise annoyance and sleep disturbance. Recently a more holistic approach, including positive and negative aspects as well as non-residential functions of the urban environment, has gained renewed interest. The label “urban soundscape” is often used to refer to this approach. Research towards selection and quantification of the acoustic descriptors of the urban soundscape is, however, still in an early stage. This paper draws on the analogy with music and self-organization to propose an indicator for studying the temporal structure of the urban soundscape. Applicability is illustrated by drawing a map of music-likeness of the soundscape in an urban area.

scholarly journals LIFESTYLE, ARCHITECTURE AND QUALITY OF THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-168
Author(s):  
Viktor P. GENERALOV ◽  
Elena M. GENERALOVA
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Compact City ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Fundamental Research ◽  
Typological Structure ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

The study reveals the aspects that defi ne the concept of “lifestyle”, including the main categories: standard of living, lifestyle, quality of life and lifestyle. Insuffi cient knowledge of the mutual infl uence of people’s “lifestyle” on the typological structure of apartments and residential buildings, on the quality of the urban environment is emphasized. The infl uence of the level of urbanization of the city territory on the characteristics of the “urban lifestyle” is considered. Problematic issues are raised related to the debate on the relationship between building density and comfort and the quality index of the living environment. The main directions of fundamental research in the fi eld of architecture, aimed at the development of new types of buildings, are touched upon. The emphasis is made on the methods of using high-rise buildings for the humanization of the urban environment and the formation of a modern “compact city”.

scholarly journals Opportunities and challenges of using socially intelligent agents: increasing interaction and school participation for children suffering from a long-term illness

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Mårell-Olsson ◽  
Thomas Mejtoft ◽  
Sofia Tovedal ◽  
Ulrik Söderström
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Medical Needs ◽  
Societal Benefits ◽  
School Participation

PurposeChildren suffering from cancer or cardiovascular disease, who need extended periods of treatment in hospitals, are subjected to multiple hardships apart from the physical implications, for example, experienced isolation and disrupted social and academic development. This has negative effects long after the child's recovery from the illness. The purpose of this paper is to examine the non-medical needs of children suffering from a long-term illness, as well as research the field of artificial intelligence (AI) – more specifically, the use of socially intelligent agents (SIAs) – in order to study how technology can enhance children's interaction, participation and quality of life.Design/methodology/approachInterviews were performed with experts in three fields: housing manager for hospitalized children, a professor in computing science and researcher in AI, and an engineer and developer at a tech company.FindingsIt is important for children to be able to take control of the narrative by using an SIA to support the documentation of their period of illness, for example. This could serve as a way of processing emotions, documenting educational development or keeping a reference for later in life. The findings also show that the societal benefits of AI include automating mundane tasks and recognizing patterns.Originality/valueThe originality of this study concerns the holistic approach of increasing the knowledge and understanding of these children's specific needs and challenges, particularly regarding their participation and interaction with teachers and friends at school, using an SIA.

INFANTS’ CRYING SOUNDS AT PAIN STIMULI FROM INJECTIONS: ANALYSIS OF TIME-FREQUENCY DOMAIN AND CORRELATION WITH TEMPERAMENT DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150018
Author(s):  
Shao-Chieh Liao ◽  
Pei-Yin Chen ◽  
Jiun-Hung Lin ◽  
Julie Chi Chow ◽  
Willy Chou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Stage ◽  
Feeding Habits ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Audio Signals ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Expression Of Emotions ◽  
Types Of Information ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Pain Stimuli

Background: An infant is an individual who possesses his/her own innate personality. Crying is a form of communication, an expression of emotions and temperament. Our study aims to predict an infant’s temperament in the early stage by analyzing the crying sound after painful stimulation of vaccination. Methods: We analyze three types of information: (i) the crying sounds caused by the pain stimuli from being injected with a Hepatitis B vaccine, (ii) the answers provided by the parents in a temperament assessment scale (TAS) questionnaire, and (iii) backend analyses of the audio signals of the crying sounds. These data are subjected to correlation analyses, T-tests, and normal distribution for deriving the relationship between crying and temperament. Results: The results show that the manifestations of an infant’s temperament may be affected by the living environment and feeding habits. A tendency exists for a group of infants with similar and focused crying sounds to have higher average scores for three of nine temperament traits: approach or withdrawal, intensity of reaction, and quality of mood. Conclusions: An infant’s crying sounds in response to a pain stimulus can be used to predict his/her temperament in terms of the three aforementioned traits.

scholarly journals Research on Greening Design Based on Urban Landscape

2020 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 04036
Author(s):  
Zheng Jia-Xin ◽  
Tu Hao-Ran ◽  
Lee Kun-Fa
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Ecological Environment ◽  
Internal Space ◽  
Cultural Characteristics ◽  
The City

Garden landscape is the basic construction of a city, which can effectively improve the ecological environment of a city, highlight the urban cultural characteristics and the quality of life of the residents. The landscape design project uses the internal space of the garden to improve the quality of the city, protect the ecological environment, improve the greening of the city and improve the quality of the urban living environment, and continue to develop green landscapes to improve the urban environment and improve the living comfort of living.

scholarly journals URBAN CONSCIOUSNESS, CULTURE, QUALITY OF LIFE AND TAMBOV RESIDENTS’ IDEA OF FAVORABLE URBAN ENVIRONMENT

2022 ◽  
pp. 129-138
Author(s):  
Владимир Владимирович Черемисин ◽  
Виктор Филиппович Томилин
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Housing Stock ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Quantitative Composition ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Planning Problems

В статье изложены результаты полевых социологических исследований по проблемам оценки горожанами градостроительных проблем и городской среды в г. Тамбове в 2008 и 2020 гг. Показано, что количественный состав жителей г. Тамбова в последние 30 лет остается стабильным, при возросшем жилищном фонде за это время на 1 жителя с 14,1 м до 29,6 м. Из 75 городов России г. Тамбов находится, на основании мнений тамбовчан, на 36-м месте по качеству жизни. Актуальность статьи обусловлена научным интересом к проблеме взаимодействия горожан со средой обитания и формирования комфортной городской среды. Целью статьи является срез субъективного мнения горожан о градостроительных проблемах и условиях формирования оптимальной среды проживания. По результатам опросов установлены основные негативные факторы городской среды, в частности, плохая экология, отсутствие благоустройства. Названы предпочитаемые и нежелательные районы города для проживания. На основе ответов респондентов сформирован «социальный заказ» по оптимизации городской среды, решению градостроительных проблем. Показано, что приобщение населения к решению городских проблем повышает социальную ответственность горожан за создание комфортной среды проживания. На основании эмпирического исследования делается вывод о том, что для создания благоприятной городской среды обитания в самих горожанах должны появиться градостроительное сознание и культура с человеческим измерением. The paper presents the results of field sociological research on the problems of assessing urban planning problems and urban environment in Tambov in 2008 and 2020. The research shows that the quantitative composition of Tambov inhabitants in the last 30 years remains stable, but the housing stock during this time increased from 14.1 m to 29.6 m per inhabitant. Tambov is ranked 36th out of 75 cities in Russia in terms of quality of life according to the opinions of Tambov residents. The relevance of the publication is due to the scientific interest in the sphere of interaction of citizens with the environment and comfortable urban environment formation. The purpose of the paper is to analyze the subjective opinion of residents about urban planning problems and the conditions of optimal living environment formation. Based on the results of the polls the main negative factors of the urban environment were identified, in particular, poor ecology, lack of landscaping. Preferred and undesirable areas of the city for living have been named. Based on the respondents' answers, a “social order” was formed to optimize the urban environment and solve urban planning problems. The authors suggest that involving the citizens in solving urban problems increases their social responsibility for creating a comfortable living environment. The empirical research allows us to think that in order to create a favorable urban environment, urban planning consciousness and culture with a human dimension must appear among townspeople. In this article according to sociological surveys, we have broadly subjectively revealed and assessed the quality of life of respondents in the non-production fixed assets of social consumption in Tambov.

scholarly journals Assessment of social facilitiesʼs urbun development based on the integral rating of districts (case study of 25 districts of Moscow)

Vestnik MGSU ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 279-293
Author(s):  
Yulia G. Strashnova ◽  
Lyudmila F. Strashnova ◽  
Tatyana I. Zhukova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Online Questionnaire

Introduction. The article describes the methods and results of the sociological study carried out by the Institute of the Genplan Institute of Moscow in 2019–2020 to measure the satisfaction of the population with the level and quality of social infrastructure development (objects of commerce, public catering, household services, health care, social welfare, education, culture and leisure, sports). The relevance of research is reflected in the increasing importance of the social approach to design, due to the formation of the information society, the importance of analysing consumer behaviour of the population in terms of changes in value orientations and lifestyles, cultural attitudes as a result of economic transformations that have had a significant impact on consumer behaviour. The involvement of residents in the development of prospects for the development of residential areas improves the quality of urban documentation, as it forms targets for its implementation; taking into account requests based on the satisfaction of Moscow’s living conditions and the comfort of the urban environment. Materials and methods. In carrying out the study, methods of field survey (collection of information on territory, population, built environment, state of the property) and systematic, typological, functional and structural analysis were applied. The sociological survey of the population was carried out by means of an online questionnaire, analysis and synthesis of the results and comparison with official statistics. Results. The study was carried out in 25 districts of Moscow (Northern Administrative Okrug, North-Western Administrative Okrug and Zelenogradsky Administrative Okrug): the territorial organization of social infrastructure facilities was analysed, the quality of the living environment within municipalities was assessed. A lack of facilities has been identified. The prospects for the development of social infrastructure have been determined taking into account the views of the inhabitants of the districts. Conclusions. The study provided a unique tool for identifying emerging imbalances in the development of social infrastructure, as well as effective urban planning of a cohesive urban environment, based on both normative calculations and population estimates. In order to objectively assess social development and to compile a ranking of districts according to the level of social infrastructure development, the following have been developed: index of population’s social infrastructure, index of diversity of facilities, integral index of social infrastructure development.

scholarly journals Stigmergic behaviour and nodal places in residential areas: Case of post-socialist city Kharkiv in Ukraine

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 033-047
Author(s):  
Oksana Chabanyuk ◽  
Miguel Fonseca
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Residential Area ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Institutional Level ◽  
Urban Policies ◽  
Observation Systems ◽  
Time Observation

The study of urban development and regeneration of residential areas in the cities are mainly focused on the separate infrastructural systems and less how networks of infrastructural systems and their elements, as nodal places, interact with the existing living environment and its urban tissue. The central goal of the paper is to examine contemporary residential areas of low liveability with nodal places of logistics and services infrastructural networks, with an eye on existing urban policies and application of transdisciplinary concept of stigmergy in contemporary urban environment. Research objectives: (a) conceptualisation of stigmergic process in urban planning; (b) overview of socialist and post-socialist urban policies for residential areas; (c) stigmergic behaviour in the development of nodal places in residential areas. Methodology: Use of Earth Time Observation Systems for identification of urban changes of nodal places under the stigmergic behaviour in the case study residential area in post-socialist city in Ukraine; contextualization of the case study with the categories: Ideology, Institutional level, Politics, Economics, Mobile Infrastructures. Discussion and conclusion: (a) as concept, stigmergic behaviours are efficient, but work as a self-organization form; (b) urban policies should, under the stigmergic behaviours, contextualize changes, continue or prevent the process.

scholarly journals A problem peculiar to women: Mental health in menopauseKadına özgü bir sorun: Menopozda ruh sağlığı

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 787 ◽  
Author(s):  
Şükran Ertekin Pınar ◽  
Gülay Yıldırım ◽  
Özlem Duran ◽  
Büşra Cesur
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Reproductive Hormones ◽  
Health It ◽  
Cultural Integrity ◽  
Mental Problems ◽  
Length Of Life ◽  
Mental Aspect

<p>Menopause ranked among reproductive health is one of the issues that requires special consideration because of the position of women. In terms of the elimination of inequalities in gender-related health, it is important to investigate this issue in a holistic approach. Today with the increasing length of life, the time that spent in menopause period is increasing too. Accepted physiological event menopause leads to changes in physiological, mental, social and sexual ways. Changes in the levels of reproductive hormones lead to menstrual cycle disruption, vasomotor symptoms, sleep disorders and mood changes. As menopause period develops with pathological events which threaten life, impair quality of life and affect marriage relationship, it is an important period needs to be addressed by health professionals. In this context, identifying mental problems gone through in menopause period is important in terms of holistic approach. Women in menopause periods should be addressed in the biopsychosocial and cultural integrity and health professionals should determine women who are at risk of mental problems at an early stage and should provide support in a mental aspect.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Özet</strong></p><p>Üreme sağlığı içinde yer alan menopoz, kadınların konumlarından dolayı özel yaklaşım gerektiren konulardan biridir. Cinsiyete bağlı sağlıkta eşitsizlik durumunun ortadan kaldırması açısından bütüncül yaklaşım içerisinde bu konunun araştırılmış olması önemlidir. Günümüzde yaşam süresinin uzaması ile birlikte menopoz döneminde geçirilen süre de artmaktadır. Fizyolojik bir olay olarak kabul edilen menopoz kadında fizyolojik, mental, sosyal ve cinsel yönden birçok değişimler yaşanmasına neden olmaktadır. Üreme hormonlarının düzeylerindeki değişiklikler sonucu adet döngüsünde bozulma, vazomotor belirtiler, uyku bozuklukları, duygu durum değişiklikleri görülebilmektedir. Menopoz dönemi yaşamı tehdit edici, yaşam kalitesini bozucu ve evlilik ilişkisini etkileyen patolojik olaylarla birlikte seyrettiği için sağlık profesyonelleri tarafından ele alınması gereken önemli bir dönemdir. Bu bağlamda menopoz döneminde yaşanan ruhsal sorunların belirlenmesi bütüncül yaklaşım açısından önem taşımaktadır. Menopoz döneminde olan kadınlar biyopsikososyal ve kültürel bütünlük içinde ele alınmalı, sağlık profesyonelleri, ruhsal sorunlar yönünden risk altında olan kadınları erken dönemde belirlemeli, ruhsal yönden destek almalarını sağlamalıdır.</p>

The Environment Analysis of Enshi Ecological Livability

2013 ◽  
Vol 864-867 ◽  
pp. 1047-1053
Author(s):  
Yan Qiu Lu ◽  
Sheng Gao Cheng ◽  
Yi Sun ◽  
E Ping Song
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Environment Analysis ◽  
The Road ◽  
Public Facilities ◽  
Chinese Characteristics

At present China has entered into the rapid development of urbanization, facing the transition from extensive city to conservation-minded city. We need to actively explore the road of urbanization with Chinese characteristics, so as to save resources, improve the quality of urban environment, and create a more suitable living environment. In view of this, this thesis analyze the habitability of Enshi City mainly from the perspective of natural environment, cultural environment, living conditions, public facilities, resources, and put forward their own understanding of livable city and some suggestions of Enshi habitable environmental improvement.

scholarly journals Hygienic aspects of evaluating the process of creating a comfortable urban environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 99 (6) ◽  
pp. 551-556
Author(s):  
Olga L. Kopytenkova ◽  
A. V. Levanchuk ◽  
V. V. Ryabets
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Level Structure ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Assessment Procedure ◽  
Healthy Children ◽  
Urban Living

Introduction. The national programs focus on solving social and economic problems. At the same time, the hygienic characteristics of the urban environment that determine living conditions are not fully included in the documents regulating the formation of the urban environment. Materials and methods. The paper provides a content analysis of the current normative and methodological literature recommended for use in assessing the “formation of a comfortable urban environment” in Russian localities.Results. Currently, existing methods for assessing the “comfort of the urban environment” (methodology for forming the urban environment quality index dated March 23, 2019, No. 510-R) and “quality of the urban living environment” (methodology for assessing the quality of the urban living environment dated September 9, 2013, 371) are not suitable for determining the development strategy of the country’s territories because the assessment procedure does not include key hygienic indices of the comfort of the natural environment and living conditions of the population, which allow citizens to meet housing needs and ensure a high quality of life in General, including the birth of healthy children, maintaining the health of the adult population and preventing premature mortality.Conclusion. The urban environment integrates a variety of inter-level relations of various types (economic, social, cultural, etc.). It is intended to study it as a multi-level structure, for this purpose, it is necessary to use a hierarchical approach. To implement this approach, it is recommended to take into account the indices of various groups that affect the comfort of the urban environment and are directly related to the hygienic characteristics of the territory: A-climatogeographic; B-demographic; C-social; D-economic; E - urban planning; F - indices of transport infrastructure; G-environmental quality indices.

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