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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Barthes, Roland,; Boudon, Pierre,; Choay, Françoise,; Eco, Umberto,; Fauque, Richard,; Gottdiener, M.,; Greimas, Algirdas Julien,; Lagopoulos, Alexandras Ph.,; Lagopoulos, Alexandros Ph.,; Ledrut, Raymond,
• HerausgeberIn: Gottdiener, M.,; Lagopoulos, Alexandros Ph.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1986]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 1986
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231892544; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/gott93206
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos, M. Gottdiener.

Looks at urban semiotics, the study of meaning in urban form as generated by signs, symbols and their social connotations.