Ecology of Sound

The Sonic Order of Urban Space

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5835232
AutoresRowland Atkinson (0000-0001-9801-9380, Housing and Community Research Unit, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 17, Hobart, Tasmania, TAS 7001, Australia, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen44
Número10
Páginas1905-1917
Fecha de publicación2007-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaUrban Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1080/00420980701471901
OpenAlexW2164480738
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas89
Referencias citadas26

Sound provides an often-ignored element of our conceptualisation of the urban fabric. The power of music, sound and noise to denote place and demarcate space is used here to develop the idea of a sonic ecology. The paper attempts to map the relative order of this unseen city and to theorise its spatial and temporal patterning. The sonic ecology, a relatively persistent and chronologically ordered quality to sound in urban space, is used as a means of examining the distribution of sound and to weigh the broader social impact of these qualities. The ambient soundscape of the street is made up of a shifting aural terrain, a resonant metropolitan fabric, which may exclude or subtly guide us in our experience of the city, thus highlighting an invisible yet highly affecting and socially relevant area of urban enquiry

Soundscape · Urban ecology · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Noise Effects and Management · Urban Design and Spatial Analysis