Sökning: "urban semiotics"

Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden urban semiotics.

  1. 1. Elis Eriksson: Ting och tecken

    Författare :Fred Andersson; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Systematisk filosofi; ideology; epistemology; metaphysics; aesthetics; ethics; Systematic philosophy; Konstvetenskap; Art History; Verbal Visual information; Avant-garde practises; Low culture; Dialects; Swedish artworld; Social theory; Semiotics; Rhetorical aspect; etik; estetik; metafysik; kunskapsteori; ideologi; Sculpture and architecture; Skulptur och arkitektur; Grammar; semantics; semiotics; syntax; Grammatik; semantik; semiotik;

    Sammanfattning : The title of this thesis translates as "Elis Eriksson: Objects and Signs" and concerns the life and work of the Swedish artist Elis Eriksson (1906-2006) as analysed from a semiotic point of view. The semiotic theory applied in the thesis is to be regarded as a theory of cultural semiotics or socio-semiotics, explicitly critical towards the rigid application of linguistic models so often associated with semiotic studies in the human sciences. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Meeting-places of Transformation : Urban Identity, Spatial Representations and Local Politics in St Petersburg, Russia

    Författare :Thomas Borén; Bo Lenntorp; Thomas Lundén; Jussi Jauhiainen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Time-space; lifeworld; Hägerstrand; Habermas; Lotman; participant observation; post-Soviet transformation; time-geography; cultural geography; cultural semiotics; urban studies; everyday life; Soviet cartography; local self-government; Ligovo; Uritsk; Krasnosel skii raion.; Other earth sciences; Övrig geovetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This study develops a model for understanding spatial change and the construction of space as a meeting-place, and then employs it in order to show an otherwise little-known picture of (sub-)urban Russia and its transformation from Soviet times to today. The model is based on time-geographic ideas of time-space as a limited resource in which forces of various kinds struggle for access and form space in interaction with each other. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Street Artivism on Athenian Walls : A cognitive semiotic analysis of metaphor and narrative in street art

    Författare :Georgios Stampoulidis; Kognitiv semiotik; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Greek Street Art; Urban Creativity; Cognitive Semiotics; Pheno-methodological Triangulation; Polysemiotic Communication; Multimodality; Ethnographic Research; Go-along Interview; Rhetorical Figures; Metaphor Identification Procedures; Verbal and Non-verbal Metaphor; Motivation Sedimentation Model MSM ; Narrative; Secondary Narrativity;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis is a collection of four papers on Greek street art (specifically situated in the city of Athens) with a focus on metaphors and narratives. The overall aim guiding this thesis is to explore how street art in times of crisis can represent sociopolitical issues and in what ways these messages can be conveyed. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Struktur, handling och rumslig morfologi : Två fall av förnyelse och byggande i urban miljö

    Författare :Christina Hjorth Aronsson; Ron Eyrman; Ingrid Sahlin; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; knowledge-based cosmologies; welfare state changes; decentralization; private marketinfluence; urban semiotics; urban renewal; planning and building of housing areas; Sociologi; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi; Sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation addresses problems concerning relations between decentralised welfare and centralised planning and building authorities as central matters in the public sector on communal level. Problems concerning relations between public planning and private market according to building are also focused. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Producing, branding and managing multifaceted tourist destinations: Cartagena, Colombia, as a study case

    Författare :Narcís Bassols Gardella; Antonio Paolo Russo; Andrew Smith; Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament de Geografia; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; tourism; destination making; destination management; place branding; destination marketing; sun and sand; heritage production; heritage management; built military heritage; urban development; city planning; stakeholders’ management; top-down branding; bottom-up branding; icons; multifaceted destinations; destination lifecycle; critical theory; critical geographies; Cartagena de Indias; Colombia; Caribbean; Latin America; turisme; màrqueting de destinacions; gestió de destinations; producció de destinacions; brànding territorial; sol i platja; producció de patrimoni; gestió del patrimoni; patrimoni militar construït; desenvolupament urbà; planificació urbana; management d’actors; brànding top-down; brànding bottom-up; icones; destinacions polifacètiques; cicle de vida de les destinacions; teoria crítica; geografia crítica; Cartagena d’Índies; Colòmbia; Carib; Amèrica Llatina.; Geography; Geografi;

    Sammanfattning : The present dissertation intends to unveil some of the dynamics and processes found in multifaceted destinations. Two broad conceptual areas are considered in order to conceptualize and analyse the issues found in such places: destination making and destination management. LÄS MER