The dissertation deals with the contemporary city soundscape and fits into the disciplinary field of sensuous urbanism, soundscape studies and emotional geography. The key term, soundscape, is to be understood as all the sounds that surround us, as a perceptual theme, that is, object of a subject's perception, in its sense of 'landscape' including the metaphorical meaning of an emotional or mnemonic emotional soundscape. The dissertation is structured in two parts: the first and second chapters define the disciplinary spheres of sensory urbanism and soundscape studies, while the third and fourth chapters explore the forms that classical sound environment analysis and planning tools take on within the aforesaid disciplinary fields. Finally, the conclusions give a methodological indication aimed at favouring the integration of soundscape studies within the town planning discipline, and propose «tender sound map» and «sound niche» operating tools to help achieve the goal of planning the contemporary city's physical and sound spaces at the same time.
Technischen Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Book Title
Sull'immagine sonora della città
Authors
Antonella Radicchi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
150
Publication Year
2012
Copyright Information
© 2012 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6655-278-9
ISBN Print
978-88-6655-295-6
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6655-278-9
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-574-3
Series Title
Premio Ricerca «Città di Firenze»
Series ISSN
2705-0289
Series E-ISSN
2705-0297