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distribution of sound and to weigh the broader social impact of these qualities. The ambient
soundscape of the street is made up of a shifting aural terrain, a resonant metropolitan fabric,
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<h1 class="ep_tm_pagetitle">Ecology of sound: The sonic order of urban space</h1>
<p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Atkinson, Rowland G.</span> (2007) <xhtml:em>Ecology of sound: The sonic order of urban space.</xhtml:em> Urban Studies, 44 (10). pp. 1905-1917.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1987/1/Ecology_of_sound.pdf"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1987/1/Ecology_of_sound.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF</span></a> - Full text restricted - Requires a PDF viewer<br />137Kb</td></tr></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block">Official URL: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00420980701471901">http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00420980701471901</a></p><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">Sound provides an often-ignored element of our conceptualisation of the urban fabric.
The power of music, sound and noise to denote place and demarcate space is used here to develop
the idea of a sonic ecology. The paper attempts to map the relative order of this unseen city and to
theorise its spatial and temporal patterning. The sonic ecology, a relatively persistent and
chronologically ordered quality to sound in urban space, is used as a means of examining the
distribution of sound and to weigh the broader social impact of these qualities. The ambient
soundscape of the street is made up of a shifting aural terrain, a resonant metropolitan fabric,
which may exclude or subtly guide us in our experience of the city, thus highlighting an invisible
yet highly affecting and socially relevant area of urban enquiry.</p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block" border="0"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Article</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Keywords:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Sound, noise, Cities, Urban ecology</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Subjects:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/370104.html">370000 Studies in Human Society > 370100 Sociology > 370104 Urban Sociology and Community Studies</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/370401.html">370000 Studies in Human Society > 370400 Human Geography > 370401 Urban and Regional Studies</a></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ID Code:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">1987</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited By:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><span class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">Dr Rowland G Atkinson</span></span></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited On:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">27 Sep 2007</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">09 Jan 2008 02:30</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ePrint Statistics:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a target="ePrintStats" href="/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=1987;">View statistics for this ePrint</a></td></tr></table><p align="right">Repository Staff Only: <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&eprintid=1987">item control page</a></p>
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