Urban Environment Planning Design Semiotics Semiology

Meaning in the Urban Environment, by Martin Krampen. Research in planning and design. The aim of the book is to explain the mechanisms by which the Western urban environment of today is endowed with meaning, and to attempt to explain how this meaning is maintained, and lost. The basic assumption is that the question of meaning is central to human life, the loss of meaning leading to the tearing down of values and objects created by men. These problems constitute the central issues of the science of meaning - semiotics or semiology. pp365, with preface. Red cloth, gilt. First Edition in the UK. VG+ in VG dustjacket. Pion Limited, 1979. First Edition (UK). ISBN 0850860679