**3.2 Soundscape classification**

The most common soundscape classification is the one with respect to the related environment, and therefore we can distinguish them as follows (**Figures 9** and **10**):

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**Figure 9.**

**Figure 10.**

*Soundscape classification.*

*Innovative Approaches to Noise Reduction DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.93056*

Considering the way and style of today's life, it can be concluded that the urban soundscape is most explored and is changing in a fast pace. A city's soundscape encompasses all three active components which describe a certain soundscape; however, the largest impact is anthropogenic, i.e. sounds generated by various human activities. Looking through history, after the industrial and electrical revolution, the look and sound of the city have changed remarkably. Today a similar thing is happening, however as a result of the accelerated construction work and overcrowding of cities. One of the biggest problems in the city has become noise,

One of the possible ways to record a soundscape is the soundwalk method. *Soundwalk* method, as a concept, was first introduced by an urban planner Kevin

and the biggest source of this noise is traffic [19].

**3.3 How to record a soundscape?**

*Description of soundwalking (based on [18]).*

a.Natural soundscapes (e.g. marine, forest soundscape, etc.)


*Noise and Environment*

**Weather**

*Soundscape composition.*

**Figure 8.**

**Animals**

**Nature**

**Terrain** S: barriers, dams

**Table 2.**

RS: wind, rain, thunder, earthquake, clouds

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**3.2 Soundscape classification**

D: sound propagation, masking

b.Rural soundscapes.

c.Urban soundscapes.

The most common soundscape classification is the one with respect to the related environment, and therefore we can distinguish them as follows (**Figures 9** and **10**):

a.Natural soundscapes (e.g. marine, forest soundscape, etc.)

D: propagation of sound, absorption, reflection, refraction, diffusion, diffraction

D: sound propagation, absorption, reflection, refraction, diffusion, diffraction, masking

jumping, landing; non-voice expressions: moving of insects' wings

*S—Sound sources or acoustic components and D—direct acoustic effects.*

*Characteristics of non-anthropogenic sound elements (based on [17])*

S: sound of animals: birds, mammals, insects, reptiles, amphibians; moving of animals: running, flying,

S: rivers and streams, waves, flux and reflux, vegetation excitation e.g. leaf rustle, falling of trees D: propagation of sound, masking, absorption, reflection, refraction, diffusion, diffraction

**Figure 9.** *Soundscape classification.*

**Figure 10.** *Description of soundwalking (based on [18]).*

Considering the way and style of today's life, it can be concluded that the urban soundscape is most explored and is changing in a fast pace. A city's soundscape encompasses all three active components which describe a certain soundscape; however, the largest impact is anthropogenic, i.e. sounds generated by various human activities. Looking through history, after the industrial and electrical revolution, the look and sound of the city have changed remarkably. Today a similar thing is happening, however as a result of the accelerated construction work and overcrowding of cities. One of the biggest problems in the city has become noise, and the biggest source of this noise is traffic [19].
