In new york city, between two thousand ten and two thousand 15, there were about one point six million noise calls via the three one one complaint line. Scholar mac haygood his concern about a race to the bottom isn't so much that the world will get unbearably loud. It's that we will focus on individual behavior problems at the expense of wider structural solutions.
The pandemic provided city dwellers with a break from the din of the modern world. Now the noise is coming back. What does that mean for our productivity, health, and basic sanity?