Musical Cities
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Cities; Art; Design; Urban planningDOI
10.14324/111.9781911576563ISBN
9781911576560OCN
1076784338Publisher
UCL PressPublisher website
https://www.uclpress.co.uk/Publication date and place
2018Classification
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