City Signs and Lights: A Policy Study

In every city today there are so many signs demanding attention by day and so few lights illuminating the public ways and landmarks by night (or sometimes no proper sign at all and all too many conflicting lights) that motorists and pedestrians have trouble reading and seeing their native environment and strangers are hopelessly lost. The object of this book is to develop some specific ways to replace the present chaos of misleading, competing, inadequate public and private signs and lights with cohesive and humane sources of information that do not overload the senses and overwhelm the destination seeker. It turns out that, as a necessary byproduct of making the plan of the city more legible and visible, the city can also be made more attractive and pleasurable.