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Semiotic Approaches to Urban Space
Signs and Cities
9781800887213 Edward Elgar Publishing
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.
This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
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Critical Acclaim
Contributors
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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.
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.
Critical Acclaim
‘This is an important, innovative book that provides a toolbox for the study of the city as a semiotic object. Showcasing key contributions by semiotic scholars, the book unveils the different meanings of urban space, from the intentions of city planning to the reinterpretations of real users.’
– Patrizia Violi, University of Bologna, Italy
‘This kaleidoscopic volume consolidates the semiotics of urban space through a collection of outstanding original contributions on educational space, monuments, planning, settlement, boundaries and others. The helmsmanship of the editors has ensured that this will be a landmark volume in the field for many years to come.’
– Paul Cobley, Middlesex University, UK
‘This book enriches our comprehension of cities as complex semiotic objects. In confronting space as a text in which multiple languages interact, the book provides an understanding of urban space and semiotics from post-war seminal thinkers to the present day. The contributions of prominent voices in the field make it an invaluable resource for academics and researchers across various disciplines.’
– Agustín Cocola-Gant, University of Lisbon, Portugal
– Patrizia Violi, University of Bologna, Italy
‘This kaleidoscopic volume consolidates the semiotics of urban space through a collection of outstanding original contributions on educational space, monuments, planning, settlement, boundaries and others. The helmsmanship of the editors has ensured that this will be a landmark volume in the field for many years to come.’
– Paul Cobley, Middlesex University, UK
‘This book enriches our comprehension of cities as complex semiotic objects. In confronting space as a text in which multiple languages interact, the book provides an understanding of urban space and semiotics from post-war seminal thinkers to the present day. The contributions of prominent voices in the field make it an invaluable resource for academics and researchers across various disciplines.’
– Agustín Cocola-Gant, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Contributors
Contributors include: Federico Bellentani, Vincenzo Idone Cassone, Pierluigi Cervelli, Mariusz Czepczyński, Gabriele Ferri, Manar Hammad, Kalevi Kull, Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos, Olga Lavrenova, Massimo Leone, Riin Magnus, Gianfranco Marrone, Francesco Mazzucchelli, Mario Panico, Charikleia Pantelidou, Isabella Pezzini, Tiit Remm, Leonid Tchertov, Nikolas Ion Terzoglou, Mattia Thibault, Kiriaki Tsoukala, Lia Yoka
Contents
Contents:
Introduction to Semiotic Approaches to Urban Space 1
Federico Bellentani, Mario Panico and Lia Yoka
PART I CONCEPTS
1 The semiotics of settlement space 16
Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos
2 Ten theses for a semiotic study of the city: notes,
observations, proposals 32
Gianfranco Marrone
3 Devices for the representation and the spectacularisation
of urban space: views, landscapes and logo-monuments 67
Isabella Pezzini
4 Urban landscape as text 82
Olga Lavrenova
5 The complexity of cities and the semiotic gaze: keeping
the ‘thickness’ of urban spaces 98
Francesco Mazzucchelli
PART II MODELS
6 Semiotic models of settlement space 111
Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos
7 Dynamics of madrasa learning institutions in the Ayyubid
and Mamluk capital cities 137
Manar Hammad
8 Mental models of urban space and their semiotic means 157
Leonid Tchertov
9 Reworking boundaries: from gates to the architecture of openness 174
Charikleia Pantelidou
10 Semiotic space for native biota in the city 192
Riin Magnus, Tiit Remm and Kalevi Kull
PART III ACTIVATIONS
11 Envisaging the city: roadmap for an interdisciplinary
study of urban ‘facescapes’ 209
Massimo Leone
12 Spatial practices: convergences and dialogues between
semiotics and urban planning 220
Pierluigi Cervelli
13 Resemiotisation of urban landscapes: relational
geographies and signification processes in post-socialist cities 230
Mariusz Czepczyński
14 When schools intersect the everyday world of the city:
educational space as a dialogical-transformative quality of
the urban 244
Kyriaki Tsoukala
15 Urban activated public spaces in the contemporary city 257
Nikolaos-Ion Terzoglou
16 Metropoesis: semiotics, fictional cities and speculative
urban design 266
Mattia Thibault, Vincenzo Idone Cassone and Gabriele Ferri
Index 289
Introduction to Semiotic Approaches to Urban Space 1
Federico Bellentani, Mario Panico and Lia Yoka
PART I CONCEPTS
1 The semiotics of settlement space 16
Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos
2 Ten theses for a semiotic study of the city: notes,
observations, proposals 32
Gianfranco Marrone
3 Devices for the representation and the spectacularisation
of urban space: views, landscapes and logo-monuments 67
Isabella Pezzini
4 Urban landscape as text 82
Olga Lavrenova
5 The complexity of cities and the semiotic gaze: keeping
the ‘thickness’ of urban spaces 98
Francesco Mazzucchelli
PART II MODELS
6 Semiotic models of settlement space 111
Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos
7 Dynamics of madrasa learning institutions in the Ayyubid
and Mamluk capital cities 137
Manar Hammad
8 Mental models of urban space and their semiotic means 157
Leonid Tchertov
9 Reworking boundaries: from gates to the architecture of openness 174
Charikleia Pantelidou
10 Semiotic space for native biota in the city 192
Riin Magnus, Tiit Remm and Kalevi Kull
PART III ACTIVATIONS
11 Envisaging the city: roadmap for an interdisciplinary
study of urban ‘facescapes’ 209
Massimo Leone
12 Spatial practices: convergences and dialogues between
semiotics and urban planning 220
Pierluigi Cervelli
13 Resemiotisation of urban landscapes: relational
geographies and signification processes in post-socialist cities 230
Mariusz Czepczyński
14 When schools intersect the everyday world of the city:
educational space as a dialogical-transformative quality of
the urban 244
Kyriaki Tsoukala
15 Urban activated public spaces in the contemporary city 257
Nikolaos-Ion Terzoglou
16 Metropoesis: semiotics, fictional cities and speculative
urban design 266
Mattia Thibault, Vincenzo Idone Cassone and Gabriele Ferri
Index 289
