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Vital signs: Signage, graffiti, murals, and "sense of place" in Los Angeles.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Vital signs: Signage, graffiti, murals, and "sense of place" in Los Angeles./
Author:	Kim, Sojin.
Description:	322 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-11, Section: A, page: 4872.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-11A.
Subject:	Folklore. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9714235
ISBN:	059122044X

Vital signs: Signage, graffiti, murals, and "sense of place" in Los Angeles.
Kim, Sojin.

Vital signs: Signage, graffiti, murals, and "sense of place" in Los Angeles. - 322 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-11, Section: A, page: 4872.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1997.

In this dissertation I explore how history, memory, identity, and attachments to places are manifest in the landscape delineated by the walls and structures of public spaces. In particular, I propose that signage, graffiti, and murals reflect and affect how people organize and define parts of Los Angeles. By studying these forms I demonstrate the different coordinates by which people locate themselves in a large urban area, and the way collective and individual identities and attachments to certain sites, neighborhoods, or communities are publicly articulated.

ISBN: 059122044XSubjects--Topical Terms:

528224
Folklore.

Vital signs: Signage, graffiti, murals, and "sense of place" in Los Angeles.
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520 $a The dissertation is divided into three parts: the first establishes the analytic framework; the second reviews how signs, graffiti, and murals define and organize public space; the third synthesizes the themes previously introduced and relates them to a northeast Los Angeles mural painter's "sense of place." The discussions are framed in terms of two concepts: "public space" and "place." Signs, graffiti, and murals are located in public spaces--street corners, storefronts, etc.--but their presence identifies the sites as personally defined "places" because, in the words of Michel de Certeau, they have been "marked, opened up by a memory or a story, signed by something or someone else" (1984, 106). A folkloristic approach, with its emphasis on expressive behavior in everyday life, provides insights into how and why this is so.
520 $a Some preliminary questions guided my research: How do signs, graffiti, and murals make claims to physical spaces in the city and reflect people's attachments to places? How is the public landscape read by people and how does it affect their sense of place? How do the different announcements respond, reinforce, and refer to one another? How does the nature of such communication broaden the context within which we can examine contemporary urban social interactions and interrelations?
520 $a This dissertation demonstrates how a folkloristic approach can contribute to the study of urban life. Insights gained from such an approach can be applied to the projects of urban planners and designers, giving rise to new collaborations and a greater consideration of the emotional, personal, and aesthetic dimensions of place, the creative ways people respond to their physical environment, and the processes by which attachment to places are marked on the public landscape.
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