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NOISE AS URBAN BYPRODUCT

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MASKING SHIFTS ANIMAL CALLS PSYCHOACOUSTICS: MUSIC, SOUND LOCALIZATION, MISSING FUNDAMENTAL, SOUND & AUDITORY MASKING

(Amplitude)

Frequency

Noise

Freq. Shift

Noise

Amplitude

Amp. Shift

Two alterations of animal signals can mitigate the effects of masking noise: changes in amplitude and changes in frequency.
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URBAN CANYON VERTICALITY

Dr. Paige S. Warren

Echoes would degrade the ability of many animals, including humans, to localize or perceive signals were it not for perceptual mechanisms that supress reverberation; despite which, urban canyons often render human speech unintelligible just as natural canyons degrade transmission of animal signals.
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FREQUENCY/DECIBEL TIMELINE

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Walter B. Platt, M.D. The most perfect are the most noiseless machines, and this applies to the social organism as well.
1888, Injurious Influences of City Life

Wallace Clement Sabine Reverberation Time = Room Volume / Absorption Area (absorption area: product of an absorption coefficient and the surface area per material)
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MUZAK RADIO OF ANTI-SPACE 1929, N.Y. LIFE INSURANCE CO. FABRIC-COVERED FELT CEILING ASBESTOS + CATTLE HAIR = FELT

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MUZAK RADIO OF ANTI-SPACE SOMATIC RESPONSE PLAYLIST TO STIMULATE OFFICE WORKERS

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RECEIVER-ORIENTED PLANNING

General measures available to HUD and the community in order of preference: 1. Relocate sensitive uses 2. Reduce noise reaching receiver 3. Redesign buildings
U.S. Department of H.U.D. The Noise Guidebook.

2 1 3

fhwa.dot.gov/.../noise_barriers/design_construction/.../fig23

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TRANSONDENT ARCHITECTURE ACOUSTIC BARRIER BY ONL DOUBLES AS SHOWROOM

HIGH-DESIGN NOISE BARRIERS

HOUSING IN HILVERSUM, HOLL.

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Sources of infrasound and low frequency noise (LFN): Road, rail & air traffic; Amplified music; Foundries; Blasting & quarrying; Electrical & chiller plants; Pumps, boilers & fans

KARACHI: POROUS URBANISM

Environmental Protection UK

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SANDBLASTED TRANSONDENCY

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TRANSONDENT FACING DEPTH

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October 22, 2012 3:12 pm 10 30

LINEAR SOUND SOURCE INDEX MLK JR. SHORELINE PARK

BIRD CALLS

PROPELLER PLANE

JET PLANE

HUMAN SPEECH

CAR ENGINE STARTING

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MLK SHORELINE PARK: SITE A DAGOSTINO & OTANI (PORTLAND) DESIGN, COMMUNITY & ENVIRONMENT (BERKELEY) CONSTRUCTION: $700K/ART: $200K

ALAMEDA

SAN LEANDRO BAY

ORACLE ARENA

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MLK SHORELINE PARK: PHASE 1

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MLK SHORELINE PARK: PHASE 2

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MLK SHORELINE PARK: PHASE 3

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EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK SITES

SAN FRANCISCO

BERKELEY

ALAMEDA

OAKLAND

OAKLAND AIRPORT

SITE A MLK JR. SHORELINE REGIONAL PARK

ORACLE ARENA, O.CO COLISEUM

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PEDESTRIAN PASS-THRU EFFECT

DIFFRACTION HIGHER FREQUENCY

NOISE SHADOW

HIGHER FREQUENCY

LOWER FREQUENCY

LOWER FREQUENCY

REFLECTION

HIGHER FREQUENCY

DOPPLER EFFECT

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+14 +26 +29

DAILY SOUND SOURCE INDICES PEDESTRIAN RAILROAD OVERPASS CROSSING

+16

+18

+14 Local workforce Low density Low fam/hh size Medium income $40-45K/year

+13 +19

+11

+8

+8

+14

+16 +20

+18

September 9, 2012 1:17 pm 13 51 +29 +19 +29

+22 +13 +15

+29 +3 +7 +9 +20

+22 Quaternary alluvium +36 and marine deposits (Pliocene to Holocene)

+37

+36
100

+14

+26

+29

L BULLDOZERS PEDESTRIAN OVERPASS

+14 Local workforce Low density Low fam/hh size Medium income $40-45K/year

+16

+18

RAILROAD CROSSING WITH TRAIN PASSING

+13 +19

+11

+8

+8

+14

+16 +20

+18

September 11, 2012 8:19 am 10 44 +29 +19 +29

+22 +13 +15

+29 +3 +7 +9 +20

+22 Quaternary alluvium +36 and marine deposits (Pliocene to Holocene)

+37

+36
100

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EASTSHORE STATE PARK: SITE B

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EASTSHORE STATE ANIMAL PARK

BERKELEY ANIMAL CARE SERVICES BURKS TOMA/ARQ ARCITECTS $12.7M TAX BOND

APPROACH TO PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE

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