Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture

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“Listening” Crowdsourced Knowledge

Bearing in mind the influence of internet based instruments for crowdsourcing, landscape architecture, planning, and urban design fields are progressively applying these tools to obtain better notions and alternatives from the community. Such instruments generally provide considerable data about what community desires. In spite of the fact that, to the best of our knowledge crowdsourced intelligence in landscape architecture has been studied limited. This research concentrates on University of Texas at Arlington campus soundscape in the heart of 6 million populated Dallas-Fort Worth region to examine the opportunities and applications of performing crowdsourced data. To do this, research team applied mixed methods, the study evaluates the opinions of campus users and determines in which aspects those ideas can be connected to soundscape patterns. After investigating the interviews of campus users, the study integrated the information of perceptions about opinions at the end of the research. The findings emphasizes the challenges, limitations, and opportunities in regard to the landscape architecture discipline. It is noteworthy that several circumstances have implications on applicability of crowdsourced information on soundscape.

Autor / Author: Yildirim, Yalcin
Institution / Institution: University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, USA
Seitenzahl / Pages: 8
Sprache / Language: Englisch
Veröffentlichung / Publication: JoDLA − Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture, 3-2018
Tagung / Conference: Digital Landscape Architecture 2018 – Expanding the Boundaries: Landscape Architecture in a Big Data World
Veranstaltungsort, -datum / Venue, Date: Munich-Freising, Germany 30-05-18 - 02-06-18
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Keywords (en): Soundscape, crowdcourcing, campus planning, Google, community engagement
Paper review type: Full Paper Review
DOI: doi:10.14627/537642039
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