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Visual pollution : advertising, signage and environmental quality

Title
Visual pollution : advertising, signage and environmental quality / by Adriana Portella, Oxford Brookes University, The Joint Centre for Urban Design, UK.
Author
Portella, Adriana.
Publication
Burlington : Ashgate Pub. Company, [2014]

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Description
xxv, 316 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Design and the built environment series
Uniform Title
Design and the built environment series.
Subjects
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 297 -307) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- The theoretical debate -- User's perception and cognition of the built environment -- Consumer culture, marketing the city and urban tourism -- Reviewing commercial signage controls in different countries -- The empirical investigation -- Empirical investigation : England and Brazil -- People's quality of life and commercial signage control management -- User's preference and satisfaction with historic streetscapes -- Commercial signage and building design : positive and negative factors -- Conclusion: what is needed to enhance visual quality in historic and commercial city centres? -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Bibliography -- Appendices.
ISBN
  • 9780754675341 (alk. paper)
  • 0754675343 (alk. paper)
  • 9781409467489
  • 1409467481
  • 9781409467496
  • 140946749X
LCCN
  • 2012038847
  • 99963075609
OCLC
  • ocn814529375
  • 814529375
  • SCSB-5802024
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Columbia University Libraries