Antonella Radicchi

Figure above: Images © Marcus Grant 2018

DESCRIPTION

Sound & the Healthy City is a special issue for the Journal Cities & Health, Routledge, that collects interdisciplinary contributions addressing the impact of the acoustic environment on health and well-being of people, through both soundscape and noise-based approaches.

Keywords: public space, healthy cities, sensory studies, urban design, planning, soundscape, noise, quiet areas, citizen science, ecology, placemaking, walking, mobile technology, sound art.

LEADING EDITORIAL 

• “Sound and the Healthy City” by Antonella Radicchi, Pınar Cevikayak Yelmi, Andy Chung, Pamela Jordan, Sharon Stewart, Aggelos Tsaligopoulos, Lindsay McCunn, Marcus Grant.

CASE STUDY ARTICLES

• “Ecological connectivity of urban quiet areas: the case of Mytilene, Greece” by Aggelos Tsaligopoulos, Aimilia Karapostoli, Antonella Radicchi, Chris Economou, Stella Kyvelou & Yiannis G. Matsinos, first published online on May 17th, 2019.

CITY SHORT ARTICLES

• “A London municipality’s electric refuse collection vehicle – ‘The eRCV project” by Helen Steiger, first published online on April 29th, 2019.
• “Acoustic sustainability in urban design: lessons from the World Soundscape Project” by Barry Truax, first published online on March 21st, 2019.
• “Right to party versus right to quietness? Mitigating noise conflicts of free open air events in Berlin” by Charlotte Weber, Abdelrahman Helal, Annika Lesem, Lena Maaß, Esther Schwedler, Anton Wohldorf & Julius Würbach, first published online on June 26th, 2019.
• “How can citizen science advance environmental justice? Exploring the noise paradox through sense of place“, by Brittany Carson, Caren B. Cooper, first published online on February 17th, 2020.

VISUAL ESSAYS 

• “Chiller plant full-scale acoustic simulation in a quiet neighborhood” by Marylin Roa, Matthew Vetterick & Gary W. Siebein, first published online on November 29th, 2019.

COMMENTARY AND DEBATE ARTICLES

• “Urban noise levels are high enough to damage auditory sensorineural health”  by Jan L. Mayes, first published online on February 18th, 2019.
• “Combined soundwalks and lightwalks” by Dietrich Henckel, first published online on March 11th, 2019.
• “Soundscape and its contribution to health in the city” by  Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp, first published online on March 14th, 2019.
• “Supporting healthier urban environments with a sound and noise curriculum for students” by Arline Bronzaft, first published online on March 21st, 2019.
• “Toward a better understanding of pleasant sounds and soundscapes in urban settings“ by Eleanor Ratcliffe, first published online on November 27th, 2019.
• “Healing the urban soundscape: reflections and reverberations” by Marcia Jenneth Epstein, first published online on December 1st, 2019.
• “Acoustic quality and health in urban environments (SALVE) – a pilot study in the metropolitan Ruhr region, Germany“, by Robynne Sutcliffe, Bryce T. Lawrence, Salman Ahmed, Dietwald Gruehn & Susanne Moebus, first published online on January 3rd, 2020.

REFLECTIVE PRAXIS – MAJOR ARTICLE

• Developing sound-aware cities: a model for implementing sound quality objectives within urban design and planning processes” by Trond Maag, Andres Bosshard & Sven Anderson, first published online on June 13th, 2019.

REFLECTIVE PRAXIS – THINK-PIECES

• “Tranquil City: identifying opportunities for urban tranquillity to promote healthy lifestyles” by Grant Waters, Ben Warren, Eleanor Ratcliffe & Julie Godefroy, first published online on June 5th, 2019.
• “Hidden geographies: design for neurodivergent ways of hearing and sensing”  by Danielle Toronyi, first published online on June 14th, 2019.
• “Marketing sonic thinking with creative visualization: getting decision-makers to listen” by Christopher Williams and Charlie Morrow, first published online on July 1st, 2019.
• “Adaptive soundscape design for liveable urban spaces: a hybrid methodology across environmental acoustics and sonic art” by Mattia Cobianchi, John Drever and Lisa Lavia, first published online on July 19th, 2019.
• From Classic Traffic Noise Monitoring to Perceptual Evaluation of the Citizen’s Acoustic Environment by Rosa Ma Alsina-Pagès, Marc Freixes, Ferran Orga, Maria Foraster, Alexandra Labairu-Trenchs, (accepted, under publication).

ORIGINAL EMPIRICAL SCHOLARSHIPS

• “Flying, health and the city: sensing aeromobility and risk in an informal settlement” by Brandley Rink and Lwando Klaas, first published online on April 26th, 2019.
• “Mobile crowd-sensing as a resource for contextualized urban public policies: a study using three use cases on noise and soundscape monitoring” by Bruno Lefevre, Rachit Agarwal, Valerie Issarny & Vivien Mallet, first published online on July 18th, 2019.
• “Resonance – soundscapes of material and immaterial qualities of urban spaces” by Hanne Wiemann Nielsen, Gertrud Jørgensen & Ellen Marie Braae, first published on line on October 14th, 2019.

EDITORIAL INFORMATION

• Guest Lead Editor: Antonella Radicchi, Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
• Guest Co-Editors (in alphabetical order): Pınar Cevikayak Yelmi, Işık University, Istanbul, Turkey; Andy Chung, Macau Instituto de Acústica, Macau; Pamela Jordan, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; Sharon Stewart, ArtEZ University of the Arts, Netherlands; Aggelos Tsaligopoulos, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece.
• Cities & Health Co-editors (in alphabetical order): Lindsay McCunn, Vancouver Island University, Canada, Marcus Grant, Environmental Stewardship, Bristol, England.
• Advisory Board (in alphabetical order): Arline Bronzaft, Ph.D., Professor Emerita of the City University of New York, New York; Peter Lercher, Ph.D., Professor of the University of Graz, Graz; Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp, Ph.D., Professor of the Technical University of Berlin, Berlin; Barry Truax, Professor Emeritus of the Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
• Special issue partners (in alphabetical order): ALD, the working group on noise of the Acoustical Society of Germany; the Building Health Lab; The Quiet Coalition.

YEAR

2018 – 2020

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