Landmarks in Urban Space as Signs

Abstract

A signal or a symbol has been sent with conscious. Urban space has signified elementslike landmark. Landmarks as references signs orient the people. Landmarksare defined as an external point of reference that helps orienting in a familiar or anunfamiliar environment. This study is about to clear out the meaning of landmarkfor the city users who have perceived reference point with their memory and perception.In other words, this study is about discovering how the city affects the peoplewho experience the urban space within semiotic of landmarks in Konya, Turkey. Themethod of this study is photo-elicitation to understand how people orient themselvesin moving within urban space considering landmarks. Analysis of interview texts,there were six different type of landmarks as; city memory-historical, city landscape/square, high rise/skyscraper, daily life/city usage, personal memory/personal perception,circulation pattern. In this study the semiology of communication studies codesestablished by society to produce messages consciously sent and received as signals,signs and symbols.