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    A Qualitative Study on Digital Aesthetics and Sound Interaction
    (Mdpi, 2024) Yildirim, Yalcin; Arefi, Mahyar
    Many disciplines-from science to art and education-engage with the postdigital concept, where human activities transform into digital activities. The post-COVID-19 era has involved new consequences for societies, where education has increasingly utilized online platforms. Having said that, online pedagogy, with the directions and discourses of the senses, particularly visual and aural, remains under-explored. Studies have addressed the educational implications of the aural sense, but this study explores the nexus between digital aesthetics and sound pedagogy and delves deeper into students' primarily descriptive learning outcomes. A multi-disciplinary class covered aesthetic terminologies, followed by a series of digital arts that envisioned digital, aesthetic, and listening practices. Considering the global agenda's recent new norms, this study contributes to the postdigital era of sound and acoustic-related sciences.
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    Are socio-demographic and building characteristics associated with noise complaints?
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2023) Yildirim, Yalcin; Arefi, Mahyar
    This study explores the nexus between socio-demographics and building attributes on the one hand, and the 311 non-emergency services - a state-of-the-art self-reported data source reflecting the residents' noise complaints on the other. While inevitable and bothersome regardless of the location or lifestyle, noise demonstrates people's exposure to it on different scales. This study performs various spatial and statistical analyses integrating spatial, socio-demographic and building factors associated with noise complaints in Dallas, Texas. These analyses reveal the broader environmental and urban planning implications associated with noise. The results confirm that socio-demographic characteristics show different relationships at various degrees. Vulnerable populations do not opt for reporting noise complaints while building-related attributes, particularly the number of building permits and businesses better explain the association between noise complaints and building characteristics. The study also proposes the key takeaways for developers, planning practitioners and local authorities.
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    Does scale matter? An overview of the smart cities literature
    (Elsevier, 2021) Keshavarzi, Golnaz; Yildirim, Yalcin; Arefi, Mahyar
    The idea of smart cities emerged from the contemporary technological advancements and with the aim of enhancing cities' performance and improving the quality of life. As it turns out, the emerging theories and definitions have not kept up with the speed of technological innovations and their utilities in urban lifestyles. This paper provides a comprehensive definition of smartness and its scope apropos of different geographic scales by conducting an extended literature review. The study concludes that the smart combination of technologybased and non-technology-based resolutions not only enhance the urban performance but also increase the quality of life of inhabitants.
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    Noise complaints and transportation inequality assessment
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2021) Yıldırım, Yalçın; Arefi, Mahyar
    As a self-reporting data source, the 311 non-emergency service reflects the residents’ concerns on various environmental complaints, including noise. This study explores the nexus between noise complaints extracted from this data source and the transportation-related inequality that reflects a wide range of socio-demographic cohorts associated with it in Dallas, Texas. Noise constitutes an inevitable fact of life—especially in denser urban areas, that as this paper reports, reflects social injustice. Drawing from multiple socio-demographic and transportation indicators, this study conducts multiple statistical and spatial analyses in the selected case studies. The findings further identify the explanatory variables relative to noise complaints and their inequality implications. The results confirm that transportation-related factors affect inequality while also operating within specific socio-demographic patterns. The study gleans lessons for transportation and urban planners, policymakers, and local authorities.
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    Noise complaints, the COVID-19 pandemic, and compact developments: evidence from five American cities
    (Springer Heidelberg, 2023) Yildirim, Yalcin; Keshavarzi, Golnaz; Arefi, Mahyar
    The COVID-19 continues to take its toll on human life. Even though to a less threatening extent, and insignificant to some, noise turns out to be one of its consequences without consensus. While individuals experience multiple restrictions and restrain from exuberant activities by spending most of their time at home, reducing public transportation and personal vehicles, overall, they end up reduce anthropogenic noise pressure. On another level, people continue reporting noise concerns at various degrees during the COVID-19 pandemic. To draw a bigger picture as to whether or not these complaints have increased during the COVID-19 compared to the same period last year, this research examines them in five major American cities: New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Phoenix, and Dallas. Furthermore, the study also assessed the complaint patterns, whether reported in compact or sprawled areas. The findings highlight that either the noise complaints increased or decreased during the COVID-19 crisis. Accordingly, four of the five selected cities, except San Francisco, showed a decrease in reported noise. As it turns out, compact developments correlate significantly and positively with noise complaints in all study areas, except in Phoenix. These findings call for regulating and prioritizing noise-related policies. Planners and urban designers can thus advise to sustain environmental planning and public health issues, especially in planning compact developments.
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    Seeking the Nexus Between Building Acoustics and Urban Form: A Systematic Review
    (Springer Heidelberg, 2023) Yildirim, Yalcin; Arefi, Mahyar
    Purpose of ReviewNoise is penetrating urban life pervasively and is imperative for demonstrating the factors behind it regarding built environment, aka buildings and urban form. So, this review aims to provide a better understanding of the association between building acoustics and urban form characteristics.Recent FindingsThere is a growing attention for building acoustics, including materials and simulation aspects with various increasing urban form attributes, i.e., the built and natural environment and transportation.Building acoustics is a key aspect of urban life and falls within the interface of various urban form characteristics. While these two main attributes are not sufficiently addressed, they may adversely affect individuals; thus, all the more reason to explore this nexus. This study has evaluated 67 peer-reviewed journal articles after systematically reviewing the triple resources in assessing building acoustics and urban form between 2016 and 2022. This review separates the indoor and outdoor categories within the simulation, theory, building materials, facade, and the built environment sub-categories. The study does not only review the overall scope of present studies but also direct future directions of their associations.
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    Sense of Place and Sound: Revisiting from Multidisciplinary Outlook
    (Mdpi, 2022) Yildirim, Yalcin; Arefi, Mahyar
    This study revisits the sense of place and sound nexus in the literature. Along with that, it seeks to explore the approaches that influential urban theorists, landscape architects, and planners have recommended. How these concepts converge within the allied disciplines of urban planning, urban design, geography, and landscape architecture remains at the forefront of this investigation. This research proposes a conceptual framework by identifying sounds in three key categories-auditory experience, sound, and silence-to address the gap between sound and urban studies. The study reveals decisive patterns in urban studies' interface between the sense of place and the sound context.
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    What can first-year undergraduate students “envision” from a pandemic?
    (Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2024) Yildirim, Yalcin; Müftüo?lu, Volkan; Ersoz, Nazli Deniz; Arefi, Mahyar
    The COVID-19 pandemic has further compounded the inherent complexities of design pedagogy. At the same time, offering an online teaching method made it imperative to incorporate the pandemic’s implications in the design process upon experiencing its adverse impacts. This study investigates landscape architecture students’ design approaches and understandings in a real-world studio based on the before and after COVID-19 scenarios. The findings show that most students designed multi-functional public open spaces before the COVID-19 period while they envisioned post-pandemic uses after the COVID-19 period. The study results not only offer insights for online or distance learning for design students, but also prepare design-oriented solutions for the pandemic-related episodes. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2023.