Abstract
The article’s research subject concerns soundscape acoustic perception and human perception. The article aims to support decision-making processes, based on the subjective assessment of green areas by visitors, allowing modeling of planning strategies in urban green areas. This would allow creating a friendly soundscape and managing it sustainably. The need to create a musical landscape can contribute to finding a new function and attractive form for the studied areas now and in the future. Research carried out for selected city parks in Bydgoszcz (Poland) took into consideration people’s responses in assessing the soundscape. Surveys conducted in selected parks provided information on noise sources and how consumers perceive noise during their stay in the park. A question about feeling described the reception of sound sources’ intensity by respondents (level of feeling: low, medium, high, and very high). The completed studies allow to “translate” subjective sound level responses to the numerical values of the correlation using fuzzy cognitive maps. The implemented scenarios show the possibility of using tools supporting the decision-making process in urban planning, taking into account existing acoustic conditions.
Highlights
The physical impact of an acoustic wave, vibration, and resonance can lead to hearing impairment, neuroendocrine and neurophysiological disorders, and inflammatory reactions [3,4,5]
Because those three parks are comparable and display similar features that shape the soundscape, an aggregated cognitive map based on the survey could be produced
Uncertain causal knowledge is stored in a fuzzy map mark, where the nodes represent variable phenomena, transforming weighted and summed input data into numerical data, analogous to the artificial neuron model (Table 2 and Figure 7)
Summary
Continuous exposure to high-level noise can lead to health and psychological problems that directly threaten public health and well-being [1,2]. The physical impact of an acoustic wave, vibration, and resonance can lead to hearing impairment, neuroendocrine and neurophysiological disorders, and inflammatory reactions [3,4,5]. Basner et al [4] indicate that noise is a more and more frequent disturbance in the workspace, and there are threats related to social noise, leading to hearing loss and to employee efficiency reduction and reduction of cognitive ability in children. Sygna et al [6] conducted studies related to the impact of road noise on mental health and sleep quality of people exposed to it, showing that there is a significant relationship between noise exposure and the level of symptoms indicative of mental disorders
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