Caracterización de la calidad sonora de las zonas verdes en las aglomeraciones urbanas

Abstract

Due to the lifestyle in the current urban agglomerations, it exists the need to have green spaces inside the cities to be able to have areas where vegetation and nature reinforce our spontaneous attention and, allow us that our sensory system relax and injects us new energy, reducing our daily stress. A suitable soundscape in these environments might act, therefore, as an element of restoration and comfort for the inhabitants of the current urban environments. It exists the current trend, on the part of the competent authorities, of promoting and preserving the urban green spaces, selecting suitable plant species, taking careof the visual landscape, etc. but, in most cases, without emphasizing the need to design and preserve soundscapes of great quality, which are capable of providing the natural, relaxing, restorative, comfortable, etc; environments longed by the inhabitants who visit this type of emplacements. Therefore, in this work we are going to carry out an analysis of the sound characteristics of the green spaces in the city of Granada, in order to detect the principal deficiencies and to propose a methodology for the sound characterization of this type of areas.