Acoustic Territoriality and the Politics of Urban Noise

Abstract

Within recent years studies in urban culture have found inspiration from new paradigms and methods in the field of cultural geography. Instead of just mapping the physical character of the city structure, cultural geographers look closely at the culturally constructed meaning of places in the city. Reflected in such practices is a shift in focus from the mapping and the construction of a symbolic city around the core of historically founded identity, towards the city periphery and the meanings ascribed to the urban fabric through use. The multiple perspectives of everyday culture, mobility and the network city have come to supplement the central perspective of symbolic mapping.