DSR : Sound and space
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2010
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AESOP
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‘What? What did you say? I can’t hear you. Please repeat!’ Wrocław’s downtown road is an example for such a statement. The city planned the new ring road (DSR) to remove traffic from the inner city and connect the eastern inner city with the west, partly on existing congested roads, partly on new segments which will increase noise levels. How do people deal with noise in daily life? How does traffic noise influence the use of adjoining spaces? Our proposal concentrates on noise and how to treat sound as a positive feature of spatial strategies. Will the ring road become an insuperable divide of the urban fabric and communities, including through noise, or could it become an opportunity to improve the quality of spaces alongside? Traffic noise is disturbing older housing along the road in the east and travels through neglected open spaces between tower blocks to affect low rise housing in the west. Traffic noise is overpowering many different sounds: conversations between people, church bells, rock music from garages along the road. Conversely, green spaces further apart are rather calm where voices of people can be heard and even animals.
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Book of proceedings: Urban change : The prospect of transformation
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