A Soundwalk in the heart of Poblenou superblock in Barcelona: Preliminary study of the acoustic events
Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma and Ginovart-Panisello, Gerardo José and Freixes, Marc and Radicchi, Antonella (2021) A Soundwalk in the heart of Poblenou superblock in Barcelona: Preliminary study of the acoustic events. Noise Mapping, 8 (1). pp. 207-216. ISSN 2084-879X
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Abstract
The Poblenou Superblock, in Barcelona, is a cru-cial element in the development of the new city-planningwithin the framework of the Superblock (Superilles) con-cept, whose principal aim is to recover the cultural, eco-nomic and social exchanges once produced in streets andsquares. People living in urban areas need a lower trafficdensity, more green spaces and cleaner air in order to re-store the previous uses of public spaces in their day-todaylives. The urban actions conducted at this Superblock tochange its uses were completed about 3 years ago, andneighbours and workers have already taken over the newspaces. In an interdisciplinary work on urban planning andacoustics, we detail the preliminary results of the acous-tic events found in the recordings in a soundwalk in theheart of the Poblenou Superblock. Fifteen people evaluateand record sound fragments with the Hush City App ap-plication, in order to establish comparisons between thedifferent points of the route, observe the spaces arranged forpeople and perceive the soundscape. Meanwhile, severalacoustic technicians record 5-min long audios in the differ-ent stops designed for the soundwalk. The points chosento make the recordings are very different from each other,some of them in the middle of gardens and others are onpacific streets and finally, we also wanted to include Su-perblock borders where the traffic is still very present. Theresults of our study were promising and have encouragedus to further investigate acoustics events in superblocksand include all the perceptual information provided by theHush City App.
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| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1515/noise-2021-0016 | ||||||
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Superblock, acoustic event, soundscape, sound-walk, Hush City App | ||||||
| Subjects: | CAH13 - architecture, building and planning > CAH13-01 - architecture, building and planning > CAH13-01-03 - landscape design CAH13 - architecture, building and planning > CAH13-01 - architecture, building and planning > CAH13-01-04 - planning (urban, rural and regional) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment > School of Engineering and the Built Environment | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Antonella Radicchi | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 16 Sep 2022 12:10 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 16 Sep 2022 12:10 | ||||||
| URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/13566 |
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