• Banu Chitra Mookiah
• Minakshi jain
• Kalaiselvi Ramasamy

Urban parks are considered to be the leisure space. Generally, the visual experience is always regarded as the dominating feature for the people to visit the park. It becomes less significant that people suffer the loss of opportunity in experiencing the sounds of parks. Issues related to soundscape and its preference in urban parks is yet to be explored much. In most cases, landscapes are designed whereas soundscapes are not designed .Based on 40 journal papers, this paper presents a critical review of recent studies on influence of landscape elements in urban park soundscape. The review focuses on the people’s perception on urban park soundscape,temporal structure of urban park soundscape,evaluation of urban park soundscape and approaches for evaluating landscape influence on soundscape.To better clarify the mechanism behind the evaluation of landscape influence of urban park soundscape and recommendations of future research directions are also provided

Soundscape,Urban park soundscape,Landscape , Urban parks

"A REVIEW OF RECENT STUDIES ON LANDSCAPE INFLUENCE ON URBAN PARK SOUNDSCAPE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 6, page no.165-169, June-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRC006030.pdf

"A REVIEW OF RECENT STUDIES ON LANDSCAPE INFLUENCE ON URBAN PARK SOUNDSCAPE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 6, page no. pp165-169, June-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRC006030.pdf