Some noises are more noise than other noises

     Using noise as a pretext, Granada City Council is threatening to shut down the Sostiene Pereira bookshop, while Córdoba City Council has refused to renew the licenses of its three open-air summer cinemas. Will these municipal authorities show the same level of concern when the source of the disturbance comes not from two cultural institutions, but from activities associated with hospitality or tourism?

    The reality is that a bookshop and a traditional cinema contribute far more to the life of a neighborhood than they do to commerce, quite the opposite of a shopping mall with its multiplex cinemas. But the Mordors want to turn cities into gigantic stages where their merchants can prosper, leaving behind the idea of the city as a space of coexistence for those who build their lives in it, within it, and alongside it. And they want residents to remain confined to their homes whenever they are not working. There, they will receive all the stimuli and supplies they need through digital networks and delivery riders. They will emerge from their hiding places only by getting into their cars to travel—that is, to become, in turn, invading tourists in other countries, in other besieged cities.

     This is what is happening in Córdoba:

"The noise issue is an excuse": associations challenge the arguments threatening the city's summer cinemas.

     And this, in Granada:

"The Sostiene Pereira bookshop rallies support for its cultural activities."

     The answer to the question raised above may be found, at least in Granada's case, in this other article:

"The PSOE demands the inclusion of the Violón–Congress Palace area on the city's noise map because of the "acoustic hell" suffered by local residents."

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