The City and the sign: an introduction to urban semiotics

Looks at urban semiotics, the study of meaning in urban form as generated by signs, symbols and their social connotations.Introduction - M. Gottdiener and Alexandras Ph. LagopoulosI. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES1. For a Topological Semiotics - Algirdas Julien Greimas2. Function and Sign: Semiotics of Architecture - Umberto Eco3. Semiology and the Urban - Roland Barthes4. Introduction to the Semiotics of Space - Pierre Boudon5. Speech and the Silence of the City - Raymond LedrutII. APPLIED URBAN SEMIOTICSSECTION A: THEORY IN PRACTICE6. For a New Semiological Approach to the City - Richard Fauque7. Urbanism and Semiology - Françoise Choay8. Semiotic Urban Models and Modes of Production: A Socio-Semiotic Approach - Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos9. Culture, Ideology, and the Sign of the City - M. GottdienerSECTION B: CASE STUDIES10. The Images of the City - Raymond Ledrut11 . Urbanism in Question - Françoise Choay12. Semiological Urbanism: An Analysis of the Traditional - Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos13. Recapturing the Center: A Semiotic Analysis of Shopping MaUs - M. Gottdiener14. Re-writing of a City: The Medina of Tunis - Pierre Boudon