Topic: Soundscapes
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Finding Beauty in the Hypnotic Sound of Police Scanners
A window into the steady rhythm of first responders in a major city.
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Should Hybrid and Electric Cars Have to Sound Like Regular Cars?
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has decided that they do.
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In Praise of Smelly Places
Your sense of smell is intimately connected to your experience of a place and your memory of it. So why don't cities take greater advantage of this?
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Sparrows Actually Change Their Tune To Sing Over the Noise Of the City
A study in San Francisco's Presidio District suggests birds are adapting to the increasingly noisy city.
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Telling a City's Story Through Sound
New efforts to document soundscapes, past and present.
