Loughborough University
Browse
Graphic Objects.pdf (5.01 MB)

Graphic objects and their contribution to the image of the city

Download (5.01 MB)
journal contribution
posted on 2015-07-28, 14:09 authored by Robert G. HarlandRobert G. Harland
This paper explores the relationship between graphic objects and urban environments by adopting a critical stance towards the notion of image in the image of the city. It challenges the emphasis on image as a multi-sensory mental construct by revealing it to have different meanings in diverse disciplinary contexts. In exposing how a miscellaneous range of objects cited in the literature lacks cohesion and sense of function, the urban graphic object is introduced and illustrated as a pervasive epistemic phenomenon. Understanding urban graphic objects expands established ideas about legibility and how urban objects have intended and unintended graphic properties. Through considering the function of graphic communication within the function of cities and urban places, the paper introduces a framework for considering graphic design as urban design and graphic objects as urban objects.

History

School

  • The Arts, English and Drama

Department

  • Arts

Published in

Journal of Urban Design

Citation

HARLAND, R.G., 2015. Graphic objects and their contribution to the image of the city. Journal of Urban Design, 20 (3), pp. 367-392.

Publisher

© Taylor & Francis

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2015

Notes

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Journal of Urban Design on 15/05/2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13574809.2015.1031211.

ISSN

1357-4809

eISSN

1469-9664

Language

  • en

Usage metrics

    Loughborough Publications

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC