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acoustic ecology
Air Traffic Noise
Audio Drama
Audio Play
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Berkeley's Esse Est Percipi
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city branding strategies
City's Sense
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Hildegard Westerkamp
Home Town
Keynote Sounds
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Live Music Capital
Live Music Venues
noise classification methods
Place Attachment
place identity studies
Playback
Positive Health Care Experiences
Rocky Beach
Sacred Silence
Single Sound Events
Sound Events
soundscape
Soundscape Elements
soundscape impact on urban dwellers
spatial audio research
Time Code
UK Train
Urban Sound
Urban Soundscape
urban soundscape analysis
World Soundscape Project
Product details
- ISBN 9781138270145
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Sep 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Traffic, music, language and nature help to create unique soundscapes that are essential to the place-based character of each city. Taking into account both the urban soundscape and the impacts of sound on the urban dweller, this book examines sound not as a by-product of urban life, but as a fundamental part of the urban experience that is crucial to understanding the city´s sense of place. Illustrated by case studies from Europe and North America, these range from on-site measurements to the construction of audio tours for local tourism, from media analysis of popular culture audio drama to sound-identity and city branding, and from the classification of noise in city planning to a consideration of the complex relationship between sacred sound and the creation of a sense of place. Taking a social geographic perspective, the book focuses on the effects of sounds on the individual and how they influence the ways s/he engages the city as place, especially in their daily routines. In doing so, it uncovers the socio-scientific potential of sound in the urban environment, based on the understanding that sound cannot and must not be seen as detached from the urban landscape, but rather as a constituting element. Sound exists not only ’within the city’: it ’is’ the city.
Torsten Wissmann is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany.
