In parts of Sydney, families occupy half the apartments and many value their convenient location. Yet, despite a surge in development, most apartments are one or two bedrooms and not family-friendly.
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In the early decades of the 20th century, people grappled with the sounds modernity wrought. Some heard only noise. Others found great beauty.
Quiet hour is a strategy aimed at making retail spaces more inclusive for people who struggle with sensory overload, but they’re not the only ones who welcome a pause in the assault on their senses.
Commercial and recreational drones are taking to the air. They’re very noisy, and neighborhoods everywhere could become awfully loud.
Is noise the real monster? Or is it our own intolerance of unwanted sounds?
In Sydney, families with children now account for one in four households living in apartments. The expectations and design of apartments have not kept up with this rapid demographic change.
New research shows that noise pollution in US cities is concentrated in poor and minority communities. Beyond regulating airplane noise, the US has done relatively little to curb noise pollution.
Sound, as a still relatively unexplored medium of urban design, provides an obvious starting point in the search for new relationships and identities in the contemporary city.
Communities have an increasing desire to be informed and included in local art, design and infrastructure projects. This has inspired new ways of dealing with noise-afflicted areas.
Unlike vision or touch, sound is much more difficult to control or avoid; music in particular spills across thresholds and intrudes into situations where it is unwelcome.
Shortly after Glen MacPherson started hearing strange humming noises, he created the World Hum and Database Project so people around the world could document their own experiences with the Hum.
Too much background noise has been linked to heart disease, strokes and even holding back children’s learning.
Noise pollution, whether on land or under water, can affect animals in interesting – and not always positive – ways.
After travelling through the bush, returning to the cacophonies of the sonic city can be exhilarating. The body is immediately swamped with an energy that speaks of action, progress, and possibility.
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Research Fellow, School of Design, RMIT University
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Research Associate, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Justice and Society, UniSA, University of South Australia
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Associate Professor in Social Sciences, University of Canberra
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Lecturer, School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, University of Wollongong
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Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London
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GMAT and GRE Specialist, Former Lecturer, University of British Columbia
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Senior Lecturer, School of Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management & School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
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Assistant Professor, Harvard University
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Professor of Digital Sound and Interactive Media, Arizona State University
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Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies, University of Sheffield
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Assistant Professor, Columbia University
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Associate Professor of Media Studies, Penn State
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Lecturer in Zoology, Bangor University
