Quality of the environment, noise pollution and «housing space capital» in urban milieu : the example of Pau
Résumé
In urban space, the mixture of functions and the density of ground occupation create many problems between neighbours that affect the living environment and the quality of life in some central and suburban districts. The noise pollution in the day and night linked up to the car traffic or, at times, to the attendance of feasts are part of the source of nuisance the most frequently felt by local inhabitants. When crossing the preoccupations of human and social geography with the methods of geomatic analysis, the study in this paper shows what can be the interest and the modalities of an infra-urban geographic approach of exposure to noise and its incidences on the urban space of a middle-sized provincial town, rather well- known for the quality of its environment.