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View all search resultsCompounding the everyday chronic traffic congestion, widespread utility works across Jakarta have triggered frustration among residents, with experts blaming poor planning and management behind these overrunning projects.
Concerns over the liberal use of mosque loudspeakers in urban centers have been a topic of profound sensitivity in Muslim-majority Indonesia, but talks are under way to bring some order to the ubiquity of mosques that have come to define the modern urban landscape.
Manmade noise from construction, industry and the building of infrastructure such as roads and pipelines has increased dramatically since the middle of last century, and biologists are increasingly concerned about their impact on plants and animals.
Environmental sound pollution dropped by as much as 90 percent in some areas of Paris during confinement, according to Fanny Mietlicki, the executive director of BruitParif, an organization that measures urban noise pollution.
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