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.)

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

Table of 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