To listen, to feel and to live in a noble area of a coastal city with vertical densification, the before and the during, time of Covid-19. Case study: Neighbourhood of Ponta Verde, Maceió-AL

Noise pollution from space dynamics is one of the main environmental problems of cities and is also a public health issue. The Ponta Verde neighbourhood has the largest number of incidents of noise pollution complaints, located on the shores of the city's seashore, its area is characterized as a mixed zone of residential predominance. It has its commercial development mainly due to the tourist market, with large hotel chains, having sources of noise caused by the circulation of vehicles, and the presence of noisy developments such as concert halls, bars and restaurants throughout its territory. Thus, in the present work, the objective was to investigate physical perceptions of listening together with observations of feeling and living in a noble area of a coastal city with vertical densification, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, in a stretch of the city of Maceió-AL, Brazil. The methodology applied was based on sound surveys and existing observations of the region before and during the pandemic. The results report that the daily life of the area relevant to sound, leisure activities, tourism, bars and restaurants presented great changes mainly in the observations between listening, feeling and living. © Proceedings of 2020 International Congress on Noise Control Engineering, INTER-NOISE 2020. All rights reserved.

The sound's dynamics in street markets during the Covid-19 pandemic: A case study at Tabuleiro Market, Maceió-AL, Brazil

Faced with the pandemic caused by Covid-19, with recommendation of social isolation, large part of the population with lower purchasing power, living in the peripheries of Brazil, has faced difficulties in meeting the social isolation recommended by the World Health Organization. In these spaces, sociabilities are exercised in public areas of the city, such as street markets, stage of various social, cultural and economic dynamics. With various sounds, street markets mark the local soundscape. This study analyzes the sound impact caused by the commercial nucleus of one of the largest street markets in the State of Alagoas and the relationship of this impact with the acoustic perception of users, from the scenarios: before and during the pandemic. This is the Tabuleiro Market, located in Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil. The methodological steps were applied: characterization of the object of study, land use and occupation;survey of objective sound data (acoustic measurements) and subjective data (questionnaires applied to users). Results indicate that even in the face of the pandemic, this street market still resists. For users, sounds related to the buying and selling process are taken as a natural part of the street market, so that its absence would rule it out. © Proceedings of 2020 International Congress on Noise Control Engineering, INTER-NOISE 2020. All rights reserved.