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Built Environments I (DESST 1006)

e-Research topic 14

Hotels and Residents

"A war of written words is being waged over a proposal to extend trading and entertainment hours at the near-completed Huntsman Hotel, O'Connell St, North Adelaide. Nearby residents concerned about increased noise, traffic problems, interrupted sleep, and bad behaviour, have lodged objections with the Liquor and Gaming Commission." ( City Messenger, December 4th 2002, page 7). What are the issues for hotels and residents in urban areas?

REFERENCES

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Castello, Renato. "Residents oppose hotel's extended trading hours bid", City Messenger, 7th January, 2004, page 7.

Doherty, Elissa. "Heat on over Huntsman Hotel's trading hours", City Messenger, 4th December 2002, page 7.

Hart, Jon. "City hotel told to keep the noise down", Advertiser, 16th June 2001, page 3.

Gavin, Andrew. "All quiet on $30m complex front", Advertiser, 1st November 2001, page 5.

Nash, Kate. "Urbane solution to city living", Advertiser, 28th April 2001, page 59.

Freeborn, Amy. "New noise complaint legislation saves a vibrant Adelaide industry: It's on with the show for live music venues", Advertiser, 22nd July 2002, page 7.

Jory, Rex. "Silent city an eerie change of pace", Advertiser, 14th October 2002, page 18.

McPherson, Tracie. "Austral noise agreement", City Messenger, 7th November 2001, page 7.

"General Havelock denied 1am close", Advertiser, 6th December 2000, page 26.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books
Good residential design SA: a resource for planning, designing and developing neighbourhoods and homes. Adelaide, Planning SA, 1999.
Main Collection 711.58099423 P712g

Other Articles
Remember that you can use a number of databases to find articles on the topic. The articles listed below are merely a selection, find others through Australia/New Zealand reference centre, ElectricLibrary and LexisNexis. Click here for suggestions for quick ways of effective searching.

Hart, Jon. "Facing the music", Advertiser, 23rd June 2001, page 23.

McDonald, Patrick. "Sound and fury", Advertiser, 7th July 2001, page 63.

Web sites
Adelaide City Council
Including City Living Program & Incentives

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS and HANDBOOKS are useful sources for background information.

Encyclopedia of architecture, design, engineering & construction. Wiley, New York, 1990.
Reference collection 720.3 W682e
"Acoustical insulation and materials", vol. 1, pages 23-32. "Acoustics: general principles", vol. 1, pages 36-56. Noise control in buildings", pages 567-580.

Ching, F. D. K. Visual dictionary of architecture. Wiley, New York, 1997.
Reference collection 720.3 C539v
Instead of an alphabetical listing, the information is clustered around basic aspects of architecture with words placed in their visual context. Included are fundamental terms relating to architectural design, history and technology. "Sound", pages 230-232.

Handbook of acoustics. Wiley, New York, 1998.
Reference collection 534 C938h
Includes "Community response to environmental noise", pages 907-915; "Architectural acoustics", pages 917-1043; "Psychological acoustics", pages 1139-1207.

The following handbooks present guidelines for architectural design over a range of activities, building types, and environments. These follow European or North American precedents, remember to check with Australian codes.

Architect's data. (Neufert) 3rd ed. Oxford, Blackwell Science Publishers, 2000.
Reference collection 721.0212 N482a.3

Metric handbook: planning and design data. 2nd ed. Oxford, Architectural Press, 1999.
Reference collection 721.0212 N532.2

Time-saver standards for landscape architecture: design and construction data. 2nd ed. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1998.
Reference collection 712.0212 H313t.2
Section 660, "Sound control".

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City planning--South Australia--Adelaide
Community development, Urban
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Use INDEXES and DATABASES to find what articles or papers have been written on your topic

These databases use Boolean operators, in most cases it is safe to use the words AND or OR (with brackets) but there may be other codes used for truncation, such as an asterisk *. Search notes are provided for each database but if you don't get the results you expect, please check with the Architecture Librarian, Kay Leverett.

The databases listed below cover information on aspects of residential development and noise in cities.

ARCH - indexes Australian architectural and design journals.   click here for search notes
APA-FT - indexes a range of Australian journals in the social sciences, full text of articles provided from 1995 for some 200 journals.   For search notes see ARCH
Australia/New Zealand reference centre - indexes articles in journals and newspapers from Australia and New Zealand.      click here for search notes
BUILD - from the CSIRO, indexes journals, books and research reports on building and construction in Australia.   For search notes see ARCH
ElectricLibrary - includes full text of major Australian newspapers, some general encyclopedias and journals.     click here for search notes
ENGINE - from the Institution of Engineers, Australia, indexes articles and papers published by the Institution. For search notes see ARCH
EAI: Expanded Academic Index - covers a wide range of journals. Provides full text for many of the articles.     click here for search notes
GEOBASE - an international index of articles, books and research reports on urban geography. For search techniques see ARCH
LexisNexis - a huge international database; includes full text Australian newspapers.      click here for search notes

This is only a small selection of possible databases, if you don't find what you need here, please come and see me, Kay Leverett, Architecture Librarian, or contact me by phone (8303 4659) or email: kay.leverett@adelaide.edu.au