Urban Soundscape Assessment by Visually Impaired People: First Methodological Approach in Granada (Spain) Vida Manzano, Jerónimo Almagro Pastor, José Antonio García Quesada, Rafael Environmental noise Soundscape Perception Visually impaired Urban design The University of Granada team received no external funding for this project. The UCL team was funded through the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant (no. 740696) on "Soundscape Indices" (SSID). Soundscape assessments by citizens are starting to emerge as a common practice, normally carried out in context by means of soundwalks along selected paths with volunteers. However, when such assessments are carried out, either in situ or in laboratory experiments, visually impaired citizens are not usually involved. To address this question, three soundwalks were carried out in 2020 in the city of Granada, in southern Spain, with the participation of visually impaired people. In this paper, we present the lessons learnt from this research with respect to the methodology issues that have to do with soundwalking and the surveying procedures when people with limited vison are participating, the assessment results, and a comparison with a soundscape evaluation carried out in 2019 without the collaboration of visually impaired people. The results of this preliminary campaign highlight that: (1) Adapting soundscape assessment protocols from standards for visually impaired people is a methodological challenge that requires research attention; (2) Some of the different patterns in the assessment of the soundscape pleasantness between visually impaired and nonvisually impaired participants emerged; (3) The perception of quietness may differ for visually impaired people when orientation and identification are factors that play a role in the acoustic environment evaluation. 2022-02-01T11:58:17Z 2022-02-01T11:58:17Z 2021-12-15 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Vida, J... [et al.]. Urban Soundscape Assessment by Visually Impaired People: First Methodological Approach in Granada (Spain). Sustainability 2021, 13, 13867. [https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413867] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/72589 10.3390/su132413867 eng info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/740696 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España MDPI