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Investigating potential acoustic indicators for sound quality standard of ecocity frameworks Sound quality was approved in Ecocity World Summit 2019 to be developed as a bio-geophysical indicator. The classical measures of sound pressure level are not sufficient to quantify healthy noise levels and balanced soundscapes. Additional acoustic indicators relating sound to perception were investigated for potential indicators of Sound Quality including balanced soundscape (normalized difference soundscape index and biophony / anthrophony ratio), psychoacoustical annoyance, temporal sound level variance, and spectra gravity center. The Olympic Village, Vancouver, BC was used as a proxy neighborhood to represent Ecocity fractal. ISO 12913-1-3: Soundscape standard was applied for collecting and analyzing data. The method of triangulation analysed acoustic measurements of 38 data measurement locations, 71 survey responses and taxonomy classification supports the evidence that psychoacoustic annoyance is an appropriate indicator for the Sound Quality benchmark standard in the Ecocity framework.,Spectral gravity center,Ecocity,Sound quality,Balanced soundscape,Psychoacoustical annoyance,Sensory pleasantness,Temporal sound level variance 2021 English Carolina, Jessica Connelly, Maureen British Columbia Institute of Technology School of Construction and the Environment PDF British Columbia Institute of Technology Text This license enables reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. CC BY-NC-ND includes the following elements: BY: credit must be given to the creator. NC: Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted. ND: No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/