The Peter Brooks ideal of an "Urban Semiotic" can be found in his fine essay The Text of the City (from Oppositions, 1977) where he defines "urban semiotic" as:
...a way of discovering, elaborating, the codes which would allow the indifferentiated surfaces of modern urban existence to reveal their systematic meaning....This site was named Urban Semiotic over the more familiar "Urban Semiotics" plural because the singular "Semiotic" -- unlike its plural cousin -- is an adjective first and a noun second and I'm never bringing any of this up again! David W. Boles' Urban Semiotic is where Blood and Bone Render Meaning in the City Core.
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