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Developing sound-aware cities: a model for implementing sound quality objectives within urban design and planning processes

ABSTRACT This article describes a process for facilitating communication about sound and the public realm between a variety of urban actors. This process is based on an experience-led model that includes guided walks, interdisciplinary discussions, and the cooperative production of site-specific infographics, foregrounding a conception of urban sound-related qualities as dynamically formed from both their physical and social context. This model integrates diverse perspectives concerning sound, providing a common language to communicate between actors and disciplines. Retaining a focus on first-hand experience, the article establishes a point of reference based on two people walking through the city in conversation with each other. This point of reference encourages teams of architects, planners, and users to approach sound-aware urban planning and design based on considerations of urban morphology, noise- and sound-related standards, input from both qualitative and quantitative modes of site analysis and specific community concerns. The article presents this model as a modular component to be staged at different points within an iterative design process in projects of a variety of scales, allowing sound-related objectives to be translated into deliverable actions and effective results.