Learning opportunities of urban space semiotics

Semiotics of addressing systems in urban environments

Addressing systems are primarily designed for enabling computers to match an address to its corresponding location on a map. However, humans also frequently use addresses to find locations in the environment without any machine aid. This paper discusses cognitive issues of addressing systems, by examining what types of spatial knowledge can be provided by different addressing systems. An addres...

Communication and the Semiotics of Space

The purpose of this article is to explicate some common situations relevant to communication and the semiotics of space. Semiotics provides a systemic way to analyse and understand the characteristics of signs expressing meaning. In everyday life space is rarely considered for its independent qualities, but is more generally taken as a category of conceptions that act as a background, or a cont...

Urban The semiotics of tabooed food : The Shokleng case

A Semantic Approach to Urban Graffiti from Semiotics Viewpoint

City is the most complicated and tangible creature of man. There is a critical mutual communicationbetween human and city; and the effect of one’ living environment is beyond question. Graffiti is a new urbanphenomenon, which has drawn attention in light of its connection with protestation culture and street art. Thanks tosymbolism of graffiti, the artists have added mysterious aspects to their...

Editorial: crime patterns in time and space: the dynamics of crime opportunities in urban areas

The routine activity approach and associated crime pattern theory emphasise how crime emerges from spatio-temporal routines. In order to understand this crime should be studied in both space and time. However, the bulk of research into crime patterns and related activities has investigated the spatial distributions of crime, neglecting the temporal dimension. Specifically, disaggregation of cri...