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City as palimpsest: from a metaphor within Historical Geography towards a semiotic model of place management (OPEN ACCESS)

Mitin I.I.

National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, imitin@hse.ru

Abstract

Palimpsest has become a well-known metaphor describing the multiplicity of historical and symbolic layers of a cultural landscape and a place or a city in general. The paper describes the possibilities of including historical, cultural, urban, regional and critical geography, semiotics, cognitive psychology and finally place branding and marketing into the sphere of palimpsest research. This broadens the horizons of the ‘place as palimpsest’ concept and turns it into a semiotic model useful in various fields of place management.

Keywords

urban cultural landscape; place; palimpsest; critical cultural geography; place marketing and branding; semiotics of space

For citing: Mitin I.I. (2022). City as palimpsest: from a metaphor within Historical Geography towards a semiotic model of place management. Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 1(49): Semiosphere: spacial aspects. To the 100th anniversary of Yu.M. Lotman, pp. 108-125. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2022.01.06

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