However, even these are built on traffic s terms, Marjukka Peltonen sums up. Music events, which draw a lot of mainly young people, represent the sounds of the powerless in the city centre. In a way, it s the done thing to complain about young people s partying. The disturbance is not the noise, it is who is celebrating. Peltonen thinks that sounds from festivals and celebrations belong to the city centre.
People are a lot stricter about all kinds of sounds in the suburbs.
Traffic noise is not tolerated in the suburbs, but people who live in the centre are expected to also be more tolerant towards sounds from celebrating and other people. The centre is a more public space than the suburbs. It makes me sad, when people complain about the noise from music events. As I see it, public celebrations belong to the centre and celebrations are always accompanied by noise. Up to a point Peltonen, too, approves of limits, for example, so that loud music would not damage the hearing of the listeners.