From Visually.

The map above was created by Israeli artist and designer Roni Levit, and plots onto a map of the Old City and its environs the different sounds that can be heard, separate colours set aside for ambulance sirens, police sirens, church bells, the Mu'adhin Adhan (Muslim call to prayer), and the public sirens that remind the Jewish people of the coming Shabbat. This map is the logical conclusion to a history of a city that has become harder and harder to chart using conventional maps and charts. Instead, a more faithful representation of the city can be created using unorthodox maps such as that above, maps that more usefully supply a narrative of what is happening on the ground. In the above map, the areas to the far west and far east of the central part of the city are dominated by sounds uninterrupted by any others. In the Old City, however - the area in which settler houses were marked in the previous slide map - the map is an ugly splash of colour as all of the sounds clash and compete with one another, church bells mixing with public sirens, the Mu'adhin Adhan, and the sirens from emergency services. As Jerusalem has become a place where more and more cultures start to bleed into one another - and the divisions that there are go beyond invisible political lines - the more the city resists being recorded by conventional mapping methods. Throughout this project, I have found that as my maps moved through Jerusalem's timeline, the harder it became to create maps that reflected the city. Partly, this is because of the huge amount of scholarship produced on the city over the past twenty years, but it is mainly because of how convoluted a place Jerusalem has become. I hope that my Scalar path provides a lucid narrative on how the city has changed (and I'm particularly grateful for the comments from the class to work on thumbnails for each map; every Story Map now has at least one picture plotted onto the map itself), and helps people understand some of the divisions of Jerusalem in a new and helpful way.