Following a conversation about Michael Southworth's Sonic Environment of Citites research paper which was suggested for my research in the catch up tutorial on Monday, I began to look into the Soundscape maps presented in the paper. According to an interview, Schafer attributes the term to city planner Michael Southworth. Southworth, a former student of Kevin Lynch, led a project in Boston in the 1960s, and reported the findings in a paper entitled "The Sonic Environment of Cities," in 1969, where the term is used.
Below is a selection of maps which are included in the research paper:
I decided to replicate this process of understanding the sounds, noises and their temporal nature to understand a space and a city.
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