The research is developed in the Graduate Program in Architecture (PROARQ) of the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (FAUUFRJ) within the scope of the Project and Environmental Representation (proAMB) CNPq Group. It addresses the cultural relations that are established between the visible built landscape and the invisible soundscape of cities, aiming to demonstrate the importance of sounds in the qualification and identification of urban spaces and in the construction of a collective memory. It is dedicated to the development of the creation of new sound representations, especially the cartographic; the construction of a phonographic database based on the recording of sound places in the City of Rio de Janeiro; the study of the sounds of the past, using literary chronicles with documents; the contribution to the education of listening; the development of participatory listening, through remote hearings and workshops; and the formulation of a sound urban zoning of listening based on the sound perception of the places users instead of quantitative acoustic measurements. It adopts historical method, when studying the literary sound memory; qualitative, in the process of collecting and analyzing sound fragments; and relational, in the construction of zoning, that also takes into account demographic forms, functions and data. It hopes that the research can contribute to the consolidation of the group, the creation of new partnerships and the formation of a network that works with the sounds of the environment as a landscape within the urban cultural studies, more specifically, of the City of Rio de Janeiro. Above all, it seeks to demonstrate the value of this landscape to people using accessible channels that enable empathy to the theme, awareness and appreciation of urban sounds. It is supported by FAPERJ, CAPES and CNPq. Keywords: soundscape, sound memory, sound representation, zoning of the urban listening