TY - BOOK AU - Ruiz Arana,Usue TI - Urban soundscapes: a guide to listening for landscape architecture and urban design. SN - 9781032065960 AV - B105.S59 R85 2024 U1 - 712 23/eng/20231122 PY - 2024/// CY - New York, NY PB - Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group KW - Sound (Philosophy) KW - Listening (Philosophy) KW - Sound in design KW - Human ecology KW - Landscape architecture KW - City planning KW - Political science KW - City Planning & Urban Development KW - Public Policy N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Part I: Attunement: 1. Landscape, soundscape -- 2. Affective listening -- 3. Tuning in -- 4. Tuning in practice -- Part II: Composition: 5. Reading the soundscape -- 6. Reading the soundscape in practice -- 7. Composing the soundscape -- 8. Composition the soundscape in practice -- Part III: Performance: 9. Listening to other voices -- 10. Performing the soundscape in practice -- Annex: Scores for listening and sounding in landscape architecture and urban design -- N2 - "Sound and listening are intrinsically linked to how we experience and engage with places and communities. This guide invites landscape architects and urban designers to become soundscape architects and offers practical advice on sound and listening applicable to each stage of a design project: from reading the environment to intervening on it. This book foregrounds listening as an affective mediator between subjects and multispecies environments, and a vehicle to think and conceptualise environmental design beyond prevailing visual and human-centred modes. The guide expands landscape architects' and urban designers' tools and skills to assess existing soundscapes, predict how those soundscapes will be altered through their designs, consider sound as a creative and active part of the design process, and envisage how users might perceive and be affected by those soundscapes as they evolve in time. The volume sits in the interface of research and practice, and incorporates theoretical, methodological and creative contributions from acoustic ecology, ecoacoustics, bioacoustics and sound art. Each of the design stages is illustrated through project examples that demonstrate the many advantages of incorporating attentive listening and sound into Landscape Architecture and Urban Design Practice. The book shows how incorporating listening and sounding as part of the design process promotes slow and subtle ways of practice, adds social and ecological value through the reduction of noise pollution and by monitoring the health of habitats, and enables the design of soundscapes that complement the character and design intent of a scheme and elicit joy and wonder. The book will be of interest to landscape architects, together with other design professionals such as urban designers, architects, geographers and engineers, who play a primary role in the composition of the soundscape"-- ER -