Claude Dubois Read the City (Semiotics of space)
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Considering urban planning as something other than a regulation or set of management techniques of space, it is possible to read the city (within the meaning of logos) in its form, its operation and symbolic. The city of origins is written as a symbolic example of an ideal (the circle / square or sacred / profane) who would live together equal and different. This project - political - then results in a divided circle or a square divided - defined space - in four equal parts: the neighbourhoods1. This partition into four by a cardo and a decumanus lead to four gates facing the four cardinal points, symbol - ecumene Augustin Berque2 - linking humanity or project men to land in extent or inserts a perspective or a divine plan that comes transcend the work of men giving it meaning. We find this almost universal symbolic element as the city plans of regulating lines in China as the Japan3 and inherited the philosophy of Zou Yan.
A semiotics of space consists of both grammar and vocabulary developed under such Pechère by René (1909-2002) in his Grammar of jardins4. The built space or space on which man intervenes, is full of meanings. However, few studies and more teaching this discipline. One of the founding texts of this approach is undoubtedly that of Françoise Choay entitled Semiotics and 19695. Among the contributions of planning the development of a semiotic approach to space include the work and during Gobindo to Chaudury the School of architecture .....
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A semiotics of space consists of both grammar and vocabulary developed under such Pechère by René (1909-2002) in his Grammar of jardins4. The built space or space on which man intervenes, is full of meanings. However, few studies and more teaching this discipline. One of the founding texts of this approach is undoubtedly that of Françoise Choay entitled Semiotics and 19695. Among the contributions of planning the development of a semiotic approach to space include the work and during Gobindo to Chaudury the School of architecture .....
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