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This is a photo of Golden Triangle Park in the Golden Triangle neighbourhood in Ottawa, Ontario. Located in the downtown core between Elgin street and the Rideau Canal, Golden Triangle Park is very small and subject to much noise pollution.

A photo of 25 MacLaren Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The section of MacLaren Street on which it is located, across the street from Golden Triangle Park, receives a lot of foot traffic year-round.

A diagram comparing and visualizing the tone of a bell versus a horn, found on page 260 of The Tuning of the World. The illustration represents a visualized cross section of the resulting sounds, which provides context illuminating Schafer's approach…

A sound event diagram from page 201 of The Tuning of the World which compares a ringing telephone to a motorcycle engine, providing an example of how Schafer's notation symbols can be put into practice.

A table created by R. Murray Schafer in the manuscript of his book Tuning of the World. It outlines the various types of noise by-laws found around the world in urban centers.

This is the soundscape heard in Ottawa, Ontario's Golden Triangle Park in the afternoon of August 9th, 2016. This is an example of a lo-fi soundscape because the sounds of traffic and construction often overtake the sounds of nature such as birds and…