The City and the Sign : An Introduction to Urban Semiotics /
The City and the Sign : An Introduction to Urban Semiotics /
ed. by Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos, M. Gottdiener.
- 1 online resource (346 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Theoretical Perspectives -- 1. For a Topological Semiotics -- 2. Function and Sign: Semiotics of Architecture -- 3. Semiology and the Urban -- 4. Introduction to the Semiotics of Space -- 5. Speech and the Silence of the City -- II. Applied Urban Semiotics -- Section A: Theory in Practice -- 6. For a New Semiological Approach to the City -- 7. Urbanism and Semiology -- 8. Semiotic Urban Models and Modes of Production: A Socio-Semiotic Approach -- 9. Culture, Ideology, and the Sign of the City -- Section B: Case Studies -- 10. The Images of the City -- 11 . Urbanism in Question -- 12. Semiological Urbanism: An Analysis of the Traditional -- 13. Recapturing the Center: A Semiotic Analysis of Shopping MaUs -- 14. Re-writing of a City: The Medina of Tunis -- Glossary -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Looks at urban semiotics, the study of meaning in urban form as generated by signs, symbols and their social connotations.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231932066 9780231892544
10.7312/gott93206 doi
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Theoretical Perspectives -- 1. For a Topological Semiotics -- 2. Function and Sign: Semiotics of Architecture -- 3. Semiology and the Urban -- 4. Introduction to the Semiotics of Space -- 5. Speech and the Silence of the City -- II. Applied Urban Semiotics -- Section A: Theory in Practice -- 6. For a New Semiological Approach to the City -- 7. Urbanism and Semiology -- 8. Semiotic Urban Models and Modes of Production: A Socio-Semiotic Approach -- 9. Culture, Ideology, and the Sign of the City -- Section B: Case Studies -- 10. The Images of the City -- 11 . Urbanism in Question -- 12. Semiological Urbanism: An Analysis of the Traditional -- 13. Recapturing the Center: A Semiotic Analysis of Shopping MaUs -- 14. Re-writing of a City: The Medina of Tunis -- Glossary -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Looks at urban semiotics, the study of meaning in urban form as generated by signs, symbols and their social connotations.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231932066 9780231892544
10.7312/gott93206 doi
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.