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International audiencePrevious research has shown that tranquil areas in the city, such as urban parks, are usuallyperceived as positive and have a restorative effect on visitors. However, visitors could experience thesespaces differently depending on the meaning they assign to the concept of tranquility. To investigatehow individuals’ personal views on tranquility affect their perception of the sonic environment,a soundscape study was conducted in several city parks in Antwerp, Belgium. Mobile soundmeasurements were combined with a questionnaire survey amongst 660 park visitors. Within thesurvey, the participants’ viewpoint on tranquility was evaluated using their agreement with a setof previously established prototypical statements, categorizing them into one out of three maintranquility viewpoint groups: people that associate tranquility with silence, those that associateit with hearing natural sounds, or those that associate it with social relationships. Next to this,the sounds that participants had heard during their visit were noted, and their perception of theoverall quality of the soundscape and the degree to which it matched their expectation were assessed.Results show that the park visitors who associate tranquility with natural sounds or to silence aremore often found amongst those that report hearing mechanical sounds a lot. The same groups ofvisitors rate the overall quality of the sonic environment of the park more often bad to very bad.These findings suggest that park visitors pay attention more to the sounds they do not expect to hear,and that the higher their expectations about the soundscape, the more critical they become in theirappraisal of the soundscape

The Personal Viewpoint on the Meaning of Tranquility Affects the Appraisal of the Urban Park Soundscape