1

To be a Levitt Pavilion you have to put on at least 40 (but target 50) free concerts a year. And there's no gate, you can experience the concert from anywhere. You could sit on the sidewalk or the bus stop and hear the concert as well. There is no true perimeter. There's a good listening area and a good viewing area for the performance, but it's very open.

2

It's not just about the inner city. We need to look outwards to the suburbs, the villages and the rural areas beyond this.

3

I start with clients by talking about sound instead of noise. I highlight that most standards and policies focus on transport and industry only, and that there's not a lot of focus on more holistic approaches to soundscape. Then I introduce the ISO standards, talking about how we developed a survey methodology that borrowed from the annexes from part two of the ISO technical standard. And then for different scales and applications, I highlight that we try to adopt this approach on all of our projects at city, precinct, building and room scale. We've been doing a lot of work (particularly post pandemic) with state and local government around entertainment, noise policy, and activation of the nighttime economy, and trying to work at the policy level to figure out how to enable activation while preserving amenity. And it's not just choosing a new number for noise thresholds, it's a planning policy approach of working with stakeholders and educating people around how to introduce and retain new policies that can enable precincts to operate and be vibrant while supporting new and existing residential development at the same time.