Sound of the city: Creating a balanced sound composition in urban green spaces

Sound in the landscape is an important and often-ignored aspect of human experience. In urban landscapes, seemingly cacophonous sounds can create a symphony, combining beloved nature humans with often less desirable, but no important, traffic sirens. The work this thesis puts that its relationship to landscape, under microscope. Investigations into theories composers John Cage R. Murray Schafer led creation new design theory methodology for surveying sound. method were applied re-making soundscape, allowing further exploration impact sound on perception place close examination conscious, subconscious, beautiful, necessary landscape.