Hush City

Lead organisation: Hush City project, TU Berlin Institute of City and Regional Planning (Academic)

Hush City is a free, citizen science mobile app, which empowers people to identify and assess quiet areas in cities as to create an open access, web-based map of quiet areas, with the potential of orientating plans and policies for healthier living, in response to issues framed by European environmental policies.

Policy uptake explanation

Hush City has been created in response to issues framed by the European environmental noise directive, i.e. the EC END 49/2002.

Additional information

Source Inventory of environmental citizen science projects - Annex: Survey results
Web site http://www.opensourcesoundscapes.org/hush-city/
Contact point mailto:info@opensourcesoundscapes.org
Start/end date 2016 - Unknown
Still active? Yes

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