ben Taussig wrote one of the only pieces i have seen on the changes made to the early 1970′s NYC noise code. He does not site particulars, but instead writes a thought provoking meditation on what makes a city a city worth it’s death sucking starlight, and not some extention of a weatlhy suburb where prohbitions and quality of life $$$Reasoning trumps all….or as Taussig writes and i paraphrase…’happiness is a means towards improving commerce…’ Anyway…here is a linky dong
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/630