Is Construction Noise Actually Inevitable?
Every fight about construction noise starts with the jackhammer — but the jackhammer is the last link in a chain of decisions made long before ground broke. This episode traces that chain back to its first link: the type of construction we've normalized. Starting from the contested Beit Alliance site on the edge of Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market, we ask whether structural stone — quarried, cut, and numbered off-site, then assembled by crane like a kit — could make building fundamentally quieter. It's a real engineering story, with a twenty-storey unreinforced stone tower in Algiers that's…
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