Mountains, parks and 16th century palaces are in stark contrast to the neon and noise of the city's shopping and entertainment areas.
The public art installation is designed in such a way that not only is the noise of the city miraculously blocked out, but one cannot escape getting slightly sprayed by the inspirational mist enshrining twelve panels of transparent glass behind the waterfall.
FORBES: How Would Martin Luther King Respond to "The English Riots"?
Common concerns about keeping a city up all night relate to noise, traffic and alcohol consumption.
Those lights will be accompanied by recorded sounds form the city, conversations, poetry, noise and music.
If you can not sleep, you can make out the Alps by moonlight and the Italian Lakes in the early morning before stepping off the train into a different kind of crowd and noise in the Lagoon City.
New York was just a huge city with high-rises and lots of people and noise.
FORBES: Owning The Sky: Steven Udvar-H��zy's $45 Billion Epiphany
Mr. Bowdler suggests the city of Windsor pay for a survey that could isolate the noise to its exact location.
But their voice hadn't been heard - it was the city's Great and Good who'd led the noise abatement campaign.
"We have had ongoing complaints from residents of different addresses around the venue regarding noise levels, " said a spokesperson from Norwich City Council.
Not for Mr Smith the lazy myths of a lost, rural golden age, to which many city-dwellers are prone to succumb after a day spent negotiating the noise, traffic and smog of their man-made environments.
In the city center, a divided district, government supporters tried to drown out the noise by setting off deafening firecrackers.
The market square outside Mi Tierra is suddenly alive with noise, colour and the aroma of muscular street food: the city is out in force to celebrate its Hispanic chilli queens, whose saucy banter and impromptu singalongs made every night a street party - until the 1930s, when the civic authorities despaired of their ribaldry and laissez-faire approach to food hygiene.
But there is a rhythm to that noise -- a beat, a municipal pulse that resonates in the city's soul.
As a result, the city attracts thousands of "stag night" tourists each year, who are often responsible for noise pollution, garbage and vomit-covered streets.
Because the lot is privately owned, additional permits from the city are not required to throw parties as long as neighbors don't complain about the noise.
WSJ: Backyard Timeshare on the Lower East Side to Open Aug. 1
If you want escape the noise, read (and then visit) "The Recoleta Cemetery: Silent theatre and city of the dead" by Mr. McGarvey , about the quiet terminus of luminaries like Evita herself.
应用推荐