Sound and Health: Cities




99% Invisible show

Summary: Is our blaring modern soundscape harming our health? Cities are noisy places and while people are pretty good at tuning it out on a day-to-day basis our sonic environments have serious, long-term impacts on our mental and physical health. This is part one in a two-part series supported by the <a href="https://rwjf.ws/2W8hU8J" target="_blank">Robert Wood Johnson Foundation </a>about how sound can be designed to reduce harm and even improve wellbeing. <a href="https://99percentinvisible.org/?p=28785&amp;post_type=episode" target="_blank">Sound and Health: Cities</a> Learn more about <a href="http://info.sonichumanism.com/" target="_blank">Sonic Humanism</a>