Semiotic Approaches to Urban Space

Signs and Cities

Federico Bellentani, Mario Panico, Lia Yoka (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

306 Seiten

2024
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80088-721-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	15.02.2024
Reihe/Serie	Spatial Interventions
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80088-721-3 / 1800887213
ISBN-13	978-1-80088-721-3 / 9781800887213
Zustand	Neuware