Semiotic approaches to urban space : signs and cities / edited by Federico Bellentani (Post-Doc Researcher, University of Turin, Italy), Mario Panico (Post-Doc Researcher, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and Lia Yoka (Associate Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bellentani, Federico, editor.

Panico, Mario, editor.

Yoka, Lia, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Spatial interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics--Research.

Semiotics.

City planning.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

"This book outlines the future of semiotic research in the study of urban spaces, with chapters authored by leading scholars in the field. It offers thought-provoking explanations of semiotic theory, methodology and applications with the goal of exploring recently developed approaches to the interpretive aspects of urban space. Capturing the advances in research techniques within the field, this book will introduce the reader to key contemporary debates within the study of urban spaces. Chapters focus on the important topics of meaning-making and interpretation within cities. State-of-the-art approaches are presented to provide an enlightening outlook into this ever-evolving subject area. Semiotic Approaches to Urban Space will be a valuable resource for both undergraduates and postgraduates in the fields of semiotics and urban studies, alongside those in disciplines such as visual studies and human geography. Researchers in these fields will find the cutting-edge research within this book to be of great interest"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Introduction to semiotic approaches to urban space.Federico Bellentani, Mario Panico and Lia Yoka

Part I: Concepts

1. The semiotics of settlement space / Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos

2. Ten theses for a semiotic study of the city: Notes, observations, proposals / Gianfranco Marrone

3. Devices for the representation and the spectacularisation of urban space: Views, landscapes and logo-monuments / Isabella Pezzini

4. Urban landscape as text / Olga Lavrenova

5. The complexity of cities and the semiotic gaze: Keeping the 'thickness' of urban spaces / Francesco Mazzucchelli

Part II: Models

6. Semiotic models of settlement space / Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos

7. Dynamics of madrasa learning institutions in the ayyubid and mamluk capital cities / Manar Hammad

8. Mental models of urban space and their semiotic means / Leonid Tchertov

9. Reworking boundaries: From gates to the architecture of openness / Charikleia Pantelidou

10. Semiotic space for native biota in the city / Riin Magnus, Tiit Remm and Kalevi Kull

Part III: Activations

11. Envisaging the city: Roadmap for an interdisciplinary study of urban 'facescapes' / Massimo Leone

12. Spatial practices: Convergences and dialogues between semiotics and urban planning / Pierluigi Cervelli

13. Resemiotisation of urban landscapes: Relational geographies and signification processes in post-socialist cities / Mariusz Czepczyński

14. When schools intersect the everyday world of the city: Educational space as a dialogical-transformative quality of the urban / Kyriaki Tsoukala

15. Urban activated public spaces in the contemporary city / Nikolaos-Ion Terzoglou

16. Metropoesis: Semiotics, fictional cities and speculative urban design / Mattia Thibault, Vincenzo Idone Cassone and Gabriele Ferri

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781800887220 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.