Urban Identities
Publisher: Madison Square Press
Published: May 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780942604665
Subjects: City Planning & Urban Development; Design - General; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.; Graphic Arts - General; Graphic Design; Urban Planning; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Design; Logography; Signs and signboards; United States
Description: "This book deals with urban identities worldwide, from Glasgow, Scotland, to Canal City Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan. We then leap to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, DC, and the New York Botanical Gardens, Bronx, NY. Design is only the tip of the iceberg in an urban sign system, suggests Leslie Gallery Dilworth in her introduction. A truly successful system is one thoroughly planned.".

"Leslie Gallery Dilworth, founder of Philadelphia's Foundation for Architecture and the mind behind Direction Philadelphia and other model urban sign systems, explains the basis of urban sign planning including: funding options, maintenance, and building community consensus." "Information on Maps and Mapping Strategies, Towns and Municipalities, Transit Systems, Parks, and a new typeface for Highway Signs are included."--BOOK JACKET.