Sustainability In London

Scientists and policy-makers meet in London to discuss noise pollution and filth.

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September 17, 2002, 2:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"A noise map of London could help city planners to plot roads and buildings, scientists and policy-makers meeting at London's sustainability summit this week will hear. Proposed developments can be fed into a computer model to see how they might alter their acoustic environment...The country-wide model is likely to incorporate details of the interplay between buildings, trees, road width and surface, wind speed and direction, and noise from trains and airports."

Thanks to Jenny Crosby

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