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Xi'an City's Image: The System Of Visual Symbols To Explore

Posted on:2008-01-12Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:P MiaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2192360215964044Subject:Art of Design
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"Urbanization"is an important topic in the globalization and also in China. Following the economic globalization, the characteristics of a city has been destroyed by the skyscrapers. Such kind of change now challenges the city plan and people's life. It also threaten them and ask more for the plan of"city image".The question of the software construction for of a city is protractile."City image"includes the competition between cities, the lasting development of a city, the extroversion of a city, etc.. Some of the city planners and architects point out the concept and idea of"city name card". And the core and foundation for"city name card"is the further research on"city image". How to discover the name card of a city? And also how to design it?It seems that all these questions are quite typical, especially in Xi'an, which has over thousands of history and the capital of the human civilization. Been a member of the city, I am quite interesting with this question and did some research on it. This essay is based on the following three points.Secondly,"city image"shows the changeable life and changeable city. It contains more about the people lived in it and their life. The people, their life and the city itself have set up a so called identity of a city.Last,"city image"must emphasize on the differences. It should show the characteristics of a city, and also keep the similarity at the same time.The essay is focused on the thinking triangle of visual communication and the city visual image symbols. The essay tries to find a way to promote Xi'an city, to realize its construction aim of an international city and also solve the visual problem.After the further research of the questions of"city image", the essay is trying to get an analysis about the modern actuality of Xi'an city. Then the essay gives out three big kinds and seven small kinds of visual factors under the analyzing way of Xi'an city image visual factors, and also turns these visual factors into three kinds of symbols.
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