Acoustic Territoriality: City planning and the politics of urban sound

TY - GEN

T1 - Acoustic Territoriality

T2 - Ljudmiljö, hälsa och stadsbyggnad

AU - Kreutzfeldt, Jacob

N1 - False ISSN 1653-9354 in the book

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

N2 - Under the heading of "Gang i København" a number of initiatives was presentedby the Lord Mayer and the Technical and Environmental Mayer of Copenhagen inMay 2006. The aim of the initiative, which roughly translates to LivelyCopenhagen, was both to make Copenhagen a livelier city in terms of city life,outdoor concerts and serving; and to make Copenhagen a better city forentrepreneurs.1 The coupling of the two goals: city life and entrepreneurship,testify to the political preference for creative industries or, to use RichardFlorida’s famous concept, the creative class, assumed to thrive in a lively urbanenvironments.2 “Gang I København” clearly aimed to raise the assets ofCopenhagen in the global urban experience economy.This article takes the case of “Gang I Købanhavn” as an entrance to discuss thepolitics of urban sound and draws attention to an undeveloped, but emergingtheme in discussions about urban sound environments: namely that sound as asenso-motoric register may be poorly reflected through concepts of noise andharmonics, respectively disturbance and well-being. A cultural theory of sonicenvironments may focus on the sociality of sound and investigate the ways inwhich people interact and make meaning through sound. Arguing for therelevance of a method to register and describe auditory practices as a kind ofsocial interaction – a method that may supplement the engineer’s quantitativesound measurements and the landscape architect’s qualitative descriptors thisarticle outline a few approaches to a theory of acoustic territoriality.

AB - Under the heading of "Gang i København" a number of initiatives was presentedby the Lord Mayer and the Technical and Environmental Mayer of Copenhagen inMay 2006. The aim of the initiative, which roughly translates to LivelyCopenhagen, was both to make Copenhagen a livelier city in terms of city life,outdoor concerts and serving; and to make Copenhagen a better city forentrepreneurs.1 The coupling of the two goals: city life and entrepreneurship,testify to the political preference for creative industries or, to use RichardFlorida’s famous concept, the creative class, assumed to thrive in a lively urbanenvironments.2 “Gang I København” clearly aimed to raise the assets ofCopenhagen in the global urban experience economy.This article takes the case of “Gang I Købanhavn” as an entrance to discuss thepolitics of urban sound and draws attention to an undeveloped, but emergingtheme in discussions about urban sound environments: namely that sound as asenso-motoric register may be poorly reflected through concepts of noise andharmonics, respectively disturbance and well-being. A cultural theory of sonicenvironments may focus on the sociality of sound and investigate the ways inwhich people interact and make meaning through sound. Arguing for therelevance of a method to register and describe auditory practices as a kind ofsocial interaction – a method that may supplement the engineer’s quantitativesound measurements and the landscape architect’s qualitative descriptors thisarticle outline a few approaches to a theory of acoustic territoriality.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - lydmiljø

KW - byplanlægning

KW - arkitektur

KW - støj

KW - København

KW - akustisk økologi

KW - territorialitet

KW - sonic environment

KW - city planning

KW - architecture

KW - noise

KW - Copenhagen

KW - acoustic ecology

KW - territoriality

M3 - Article in proceedings

T3 - Skrifter från Ljudmiljöcentrum vid Lunds universitet

SP - 63

EP - 77

BT - Ljudmiljö, hälsa och stadsbyggnad

A2 - Mossberg, Frans

PB - Ljudmiljöcentrum vid Lunds universitet

CY - Lund

Y2 - 7 May 2010 through 7 May 2010

ER -