On summer nights on downtown Los Angeles's Bunker Hill, Grand Performances presents free public concerts for the people of the city. A hip hop orchestra, a mari

This book argues that sound – as it is created, transmitted, and perceived – plays a key role in the constitution of space and community in contemporary Jap

Encountering the City provides a new and sustained engagement with the concept of encounter. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work, classic writings on the c

In this collection, the essays examine the critical role that judgments about noise and sound played in framing the meaning of civility in British discourse and

This book brings together academics and practitioners from a range of disciplines from more than twenty countries to reflect on the growing importance of transp