{"id":2680,"date":"2009-10-01T10:44:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T10:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2009-10-01T10:44:38","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T10:44:38","slug":"acoustic-noise-barriers-and-sustainable-landscape-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/acoustic-noise-barriers-and-sustainable-landscape-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Acoustic noise barriers and sustainable landscape architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2681\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2681\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2681\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/noise_4f69e9d7b6_b.jpg\" alt=\"Would residents and drivers rather have the acoustic noise or the visual noise?\" width=\"775\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/noise_4f69e9d7b6_b.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/noise_4f69e9d7b6_b-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/noise_4f69e9d7b6_b-768x519.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/noise_4f69e9d7b6_b-624x422.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Would residents and drivers rather have the acoustic noise or the visual noise?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Flickr has a good slection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?ss=2&amp;w=all&amp;q=noise+barriers&amp;m=text\">photographs of noise barriers<\/a> &#8211; but not many of them are structures one would want to have at the foot of one&#8217;s garden, except perhaps\u00a0for the purpose of reducing noise nuisance. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Noise_barrier\">Wiki entry on noise barriers<\/a> states simply that: &#8220;A noise barrier (also called a soundwall, sound berm, sound barrier, or acoustical barrier) is an exterior structure designed to protect sensitive land uses from noise pollution.&#8221;\u00a0 It&#8217;s not enough. Noise barriers should also contribute to other objectives and help make &#8216;new landscapes for our new lives&#8217; (Nan Fairbrother) which are\u00a0beautiful, sustainable, microclimat,\u00a0ecological etc. If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainablelandscapearch.co.uk\/Noise%20Barrier%20Page\/Noise%20barrier%20page.html\">sustainable landscape architecture <\/a>is to have the glorious future it deserves,\u00a0the results\u00a0must be beautiful as well as useful. For more information on the landscape treatment of noise barriers see: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Environmental-Noise-Barriers-Benz-Kotzen\/dp\/0415437083\">Environmental Noise Barriers by\u00a0\u00a0Benz Kotzen Colin English<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Image of\u00a0 North Laurel &#8211; MD216 approaching Leishear Rd courtesy of\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisisbossi\/3332240606\/sizes\/l\/\">thisisboss<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flickr has a good slection of photographs of noise barriers &#8211; but not many of them are structures one would want to have at the foot of one&#8217;s garden, except perhaps\u00a0for the purpose of reducing noise nuisance. The Wiki entry on noise barriers states simply that: &#8220;A noise barrier (also called a soundwall, sound berm, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18,38,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}