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Record Nr.

UNINA9910836797103321

Autore

Adhitya Sara

Titolo

Musical cities : listening to urban design and planning / / Sara Adhitya

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : UCL Press, , 2017

ISBN

1-911576-51-8

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (156 pages)

Disciplina

307.76

Soggetti

Architecture

Urban & municipal planning

Theory of architecture

Architectural structure & design

Environmentally-friendly architecture & design

City & town planning - architectural aspects

History of architecture

Urban communities

Sociology & anthropology

Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Musical Cities represents an innovative approach to scholarly research and dissemination. A digital and interactive 'book', it explores the rhythms of our cities, and the role they play in our everyday urban lives, through the use of sound and music.

Sara Adhitya first discusses why we should listen to urban rhythms in order to design more liveable and sustainable cities, before demonstrating how we can do so through various acoustic communication techniques. Using audio-visual examples, Musical Cities takes the ‘listener’ on an interactive journey,   revealing how sound and music can be used to represent, compose, perform and interact with the city. Through case studies of urban projects developed in Paris, Perth, Venice and London, Adhitya demonstrates how the



power of music, and the practice of listening, can help us to compose more accessible, inclusive, engaging, enjoyable, and ultimately more sustainable cities.