Abstract
To develop a waterfront area as an attractive space, it is essential to ensure that the area has a comfortable natural environment. In other words, it is important to study how physical factors and phenomena that greatly influence the natural environment, and human beings, are interrelated; and to compile, based on study findings, necessary concepts and techniques for realizing waterfront areas that are urban environments highly compatible with human activities.
From the above viewpoint, as a study of the waterfront environment, basic investigation and a questionnaire survey were conducted in a waterfront area in Northern Kyushu to collect data on its acoustic environmental comfort, as reported in detail previously. Subsequent to the previous report, a field measurement was conducted and analyzed to investigate the fundamental characteristics of acoustic environment (sound of waves) in Northern Kyushu coastal zone.
