A Guide to Everyday Sounds
The street riots that swept through France in the fall of 2005 focused worldwide attention on the plight of the country's immigrants and their living conditions in the suburbs many of them call home. These high-density neighborhoods were construct...
"Reading this book is like a stimulating listening experience: I found myself measuring the effects of sounds heard, overheard, or imagined." R. Murray Schafer, composer and author of The Tuning of the World
Jean-Francois Augoyard, a philosopher, urban planner, and musicologist, is the founder of CRESSON at the School of Architecture in Grenoble. Henry Torgue, a sociologist and urban planner, is a researcher at CRESSON and an author, pianist, and composer.