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Urban sound has a huge influence over how we perceive places. Yet, cityplanning is concerned mainly with noise, simply because annoying sounds come tothe attention of city officials in the form of complaints, while general urbansounds do not come to the attention as they cannot be easily captured at cityscale. To capture both unpleasant and pleasant sounds, we applied a newmethodology that relies on tagging information of geo-referenced pictures tothe cities of London and Barcelona. To begin with, we compiled the first urbansound dictionary and compared it to the one produced by collating insights fromthe literature: ours was experimentally more valid (if correlated with officialnoise pollution levels) and offered a wider geographic coverage. From picturetags, we then studied the relationship between soundscapes and emotions. Welearned that streets with music sounds were associated with strong emotions ofjoy or sadness, while those with human sounds were associated with joy orsurprise. Finally, we studied the relationship between soundscapes and people'sperceptions and, in so doing, we were able to map which areas are chaotic,monotonous, calm, and exciting.Those insights promise to inform the creation ofrestorative experiences in our increasingly urbanized world.

Chatty Maps: Constructing sound maps of urban areas from social media data