A project by HaoChe Hung
Intro to Urban Data and Informatics Course Proejct
GSAPP, Columbia U
2021 Fall
New York City
Medium Post
GSAPP, Columbia U
2021 Fall
New York City
Medium Post
When New York With No Noise
What would happen when a city has no noise? Would it be a better city to live in?
In New York, a city that never sleeps, everyday there are countless things happening on the street at any time, anywhere. Correspondingly, noises have become part of New Yorkers’ lives. The vehicles’ stereos shout out with the pop music to the crowd, trucks honk all over the street like furious bulls, and people walking out from the party laugh and talk loudly on the sidewalk. All these noises compose the city soundscape.
It goes without saying that New Yorkers would never sit and tolerate. According to the data of the 311 calls, which is available on the city’s OpenData portal, the number of complaint calls for commercial noise is around 40,000 per year. Through exploring this abundant data with a quantitative approach, I hope to gain more understanding of the pattern behind the data and how the trend in commercial noise changes over these years.
Fig 1. Commercial Noise Type
Fig 2. Commercial Noise by Borough
Fig 3. Commercial Noise Type per Hour
Fig 4. The Huge Case Difference Between Lockdown in 2020 and Reopen in 2021
Fig 5. Geographic View of Commercial Noise in NYC, from March to August: 2020 (left) vs 2021 (right)
Fig 6. Commercial Noise Cases Changes Pre-covid and Post-covid
