Paper analyzes forms of representations: how tourists and visitors can read and imagine a specific city. A city can be read on three different levels: as map, as icon and as text. Nevertheless, these dimensions are not so often well balanced one another. Paper explores these gaps.

City as map, icon, text. Three dimensions for urban tourism

CATALANO, Gilda
2012-01-01

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Paper analyzes forms of representations: how tourists and visitors can read and imagine a specific city. A city can be read on three different levels: as map, as icon and as text. Nevertheless, these dimensions are not so often well balanced one another. Paper explores these gaps.
2012
978-96-02871-39-3
spatial representations ; maps; urban legibility; urban tourism
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