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Urban noise pollution is worst in poor and minority neighborhoods and segregated cities

  • Written by Joan A. Casey, Postdoctoral scholar, University of California, Berkeley
imageUnder the El tracks, downtown Chicago.Franck Michel, CC BY

Most Americans think of cities as noisy places – but some parts of U.S. cities are much louder than others. Nationwide, neighborhoods with higher poverty rates and proportions of black, Hispanic and Asian residents have higher noise levels than other neighborhoods. In addition, in...

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