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The City and the Sign

An Introduction to Urban Semiotics
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1986

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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

    I
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    Contents

    VII
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    Acknowledgments

    IX
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    Introduction

    1
    M. Gottdiener and Alexandras Ph. Lagopoulos
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  • I. Theoretical Perspectives
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    1. For a Topological Semiotics

    25
    Algirdas Julien Greimas
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    2. Function and Sign: Semiotics of Architecture

    55
    Umberto Eco
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    3. Semiology and the Urban

    87
    Roland Barthes
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    4. Introduction to the Semiotics of Space

    99
    Pierre Boudon
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    5. Speech and the Silence of the City

    114
    Raymond Ledrut
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  • II. Applied Urban Semiotics
  • Section A: Theory in Practice
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    6. For a New Semiological Approach to the City

    137
    Richard Fauque
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    7. Urbanism and Semiology

    160
    Françoise Choay
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    8. Semiotic Urban Models and Modes of Production: A Socio-Semiotic Approach

    176
    Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos
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    9. Culture, Ideology, and the Sign of the City

    202
    M. Gottdiener
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  • Section B: Case Studies
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    10. The Images of the City

    219
    Raymond Ledrut
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    11 . Urbanism in Question

    241
    Françoise Choay
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    12. Semiological Urbanism: An Analysis of the Traditional

    259
    Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos
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    13. Recapturing the Center: A Semiotic Analysis of Shopping MaUs

    288
    M. Gottdiener
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    14. Re-writing of a City: The Medina of Tunis

    303
    Pierre Boudon
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    Glossary

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    Index

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