Navigation in computer generated information spaces may be difficult, resulting in users getting “lost in hyperspace.” This work aims to build on research from the area of city planning to try to solve this problem. We will introduce the concepts of legibility and cognitive maps and the five features of urban landscape with which they are associated. Following this will be descriptions of techn...

As in printed matter, black text on white background is the most legible color combination on small computer screens

This paper draws upon James Scott’s Seeing Like a State (1998) to argue that privacy law currently suffers from (at least) three defects: focus on the legibility of individuals is too narrow, collection and subsequent use data comes late, rights harms ignores need create new social structures can empower more local forms collective decision-making. What this outlines in broad brushstrokes enfol...

this research aims to explain the key criteria of the process of place-identity formation in new urban development. based on the theories, views, and researches that are identified and cited in the framework of the mentioned purpose, eight key criteria are important and considered. these criteria are included “familiarity”, “environmental legibility and distinctiveness”, “satisfaction”, “enviro...