WAYFINDING: PEOPLE, SIGNS, AND ARCHITECTURE

This book brings together expertise on three of the elements that comprise wayfinding within the context of the built environment: architecture; graphics; and verbal human interaction. It is about everything one needs to know in order to design settings that will be user-friendly and that will work the way they should--at least as far as the all-important communications aspects are concerned. Readers will gain a better understanding of the wayfinding difficulties people have and why they have them; they will also discover what wayfinding is and how the process works through detailed examination of the architectural, graphic, aural, and tactile components involved in wayfinding design. The book is organized in six parts: (1) The issue; (2) Principles of wayfinding; (3) Principles of wayfinding design; (4) Architectural components of wayfinding design; (5) Graphic components of wayfinding design; and (6) Audible and tactile components of wayfinding design.

• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/0075510162
• Corporate Authors:

  McGraw-Hill, Incorporated

  330 West 42nd Street
  New York, NY  United States  10036
• Authors:
  • Arthur, P
  • Passini, R
• Publication Date: 1992

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References;
• Pagination: 252 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Architecture; Communication; Decision making; Design; Graphics; Information management; Information, data, and knowledge; Maps; Needs assessment; Signs; Texture; Wayfinding
• Uncontrolled Terms: User needs
• Old TRIS Terms: Audible communication; Communicating; Markings
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Design; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00624793
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0075510162
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 13 1993 12:00AM