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  • Environmental acoustics
  • Urban ecology
  • Acoustic monitoring

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  • Urban parks are vital green spaces, but their acoustic environments are often impacted by surrounding anthropogenic noise.
  • Understanding urban park soundscapes is crucial for assessing ecological health and human well-being.
  • Previous studies have focused on general noise levels, lacking detailed spatial analysis within parks.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To conduct a detailed spatial analysis of the soundscape within an urban park in Milan.
  • To develop and apply a Soundscape Ranking Index (SRI) to classify different locations within the park based on sound quality.
  • To investigate the relationship between sound dissimilarity and spatial distance between recording sites.

Main Methods:

  • Simultaneous acoustic recordings at 16 grid locations across a 22-hectare urban park over four consecutive days.
  • Aural surveys identifying 19 sound categories every 3 minutes to inform the SRI calculation.
  • Development of a dissimilarity function based on SRI fluctuations and spatial distance.

Main Results:

  • SRI values exhibited considerable temporal fluctuations across 70 intervals at all sites.
  • Acoustic dissimilarity between sites increased significantly with greater inter-site spatial distance.
  • Optimal SRI parameters were determined by minimizing data standard deviation and accounting for distance-based dissimilarity variation.

Conclusions:

  • The study successfully classified park locations into 'poor', 'medium', and 'good' environmental sound quality categories using the SRI.
  • The developed methodology provides a framework for assessing and ranking soundscape quality in diverse urban environments.
  • Findings highlight the importance of spatial acoustic analysis for effective urban park management and soundscape design.