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Developing Sign Design Guidelines for Sense of Place: A Practical Application for Interpreting Bidwell Park

Horsman, Teal
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1378196467

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2013, MCP, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Community Planning.
Signs are an incredible tool to enhance and convey a place's expression, uniqueness, form and function. Given how often signs are used and how frequently they are seen in people's lives, they often go unnoticed and unrecognized for their ability to enhance a place's sense of place. Almost every sign is either positioned in place or it is referring to a place through the message. Given the complexity of sense of place, it has been limiting for this concept to provide a formula for sign design guidelines to move from theory to practical application. This research argues that a sign is an important contributor to people forming sense of place by enhancing the user's experience of a particular place or setting. By reviewing the theory of sense of place and locating attributes that go into the creation of sense of place, there can be a better understanding of developing and planning clear and practical design criteria that can be applied. Using Bidwell Park in Chico, California as the project site the aims of this research therefor are to (1) to understand how signs have been vital to people's experience of place, (2) explore how people begin to experience place then building a relational dimension and (3) and understand what makes up sense of place for this particular site. Using a multi-method qualitative analysis approach was followed and conducted. Final sign design guidelines were formulated, based on these. This research has contributed to provide Municipal Management and Planning Staff with information on signs potential to enhance and protect sense of place by providing the dimensions between people and places as well as to develop appropriate methods for finding out "what" makes up each particular place's sense of place, so one can obtain insight into the significance of the area.
David Edelman, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Henry Hildebrandt, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
171 p.
Area Planning and Development
signage; sense of place; design guidelines; visitor employed photography; serial vision

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  • Horsman, T. (2013). Developing Sign Design Guidelines for Sense of Place: A Practical Application for Interpreting Bidwell Park [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1378196467

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Horsman, Teal. Developing Sign Design Guidelines for Sense of Place: A Practical Application for Interpreting Bidwell Park. 2013. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1378196467.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Horsman, Teal. "Developing Sign Design Guidelines for Sense of Place: A Practical Application for Interpreting Bidwell Park." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1378196467

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