The expansive areas around large airports, affected by noise, infrastructure, and transient forms of architecture, have until now not been researched as a phenomenon. But these noise landscapes are emerging worldwide, often surpassing the neighbouring city in size, and sometimes rivalling it in economic importance. On the basis of eight European case studies (Amsterdam, Zurich, London-Heathrow, Frankfurt, Munich, Madrid and the two Paris airports) this book provides the first account of how these landscapes emerged as the result of technical determinations, what is taking place in them, and how they can be interpreted.
The book is the outcome of several years of research by the chair of Kees Christiaanse at the ETH Zurich.
- Introduction
- Exploration 1: Technical and Legal Determinants
- Exploration 2: Functions
- Exploration 3: The Human Scale
- Exploration 4: Urban Morphology
- Exploration 5: Policy
- Contextualizations of the Noise Landscape
ISBN
9789462083554Title
The Noise LandscapeAuthor
Kees Christiaanse, Benedikt Boucsein, Eirini Kasioumi, Christian SalewskiPublisher
Nai010publishersPublication year
2017Binding
HardcoverLanguage
English
The Noise Landscape