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The City and the Sign : An Introduction to Urban Semiotics / ed. by Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos, M. Gottdiener.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1986]Copyright date: ©1986Description: 1 online resource (346 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780231932066
  • 9780231892544
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Contents:
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
Summary: Looks at urban semiotics, the study of meaning in urban form as generated by signs, symbols and their social connotations.
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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

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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.

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