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French Urban Space Management: A Visual Semiotic Approach Behind Power and Control

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The play in question here is not to be understood as a free activity productive of literary objects, but as long as journey punctuated with compelling choices that leads, through a series of exclusions and of options, manifesting personal phobias and euphorias, to the constitution of an original and unique work. [19: 86].

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The paper will discuss the role of the visual in French urban space. It will reveal the close connections between visual and semiotics where the visual dimension is central rather than marginal. We will evaluate altogether the psychological, legal and social impacts of the new shapes of our own environment. Rethinking our public space shapes our identities, unveils the ‘hidden’ powerful discourse behind these new urban models.

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    Anne Wagner

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Wagner, A. French Urban Space Management: A Visual Semiotic Approach Behind Power and Control. Int J Semiot Law 24, 227–241 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-010-9206-5

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