Urban semiotics

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Urban semiotics is the study of meaning in urban form. It has been defined as:

...the study of the social meaning of spatial forms and settings. Urban semiotics involves the exploration of physical objects and their endowed meanings as mediated through a universe of signs and the symbols they evoke and convey.^[1]
(Keller, 1988)

Not to be associated with the Urban Semiotic blog by David W. Bowels, which has nothing to do with urban semiotics.

[edit] Associated works

Gottdiener, M. and Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos, eds. The City and the Sign: An Introduction to Urban Semiotics. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.