Cultural code of the city: the interrelation of verbal and visual texts
The article presents the results of a study of the semiotic potential of urban sculptures as carriers of the city’s cultural code. It also offers an analysis of specific segments of this cultural code that have become integral to it as a result of conceptual transformation viewed through a semiotic lens. The relevance of the research stems from the growing attention to the ...
The cultural code of Saint Petersburg: the city in the perception of its residents
The article presents the results of a study on the cultural code of the city, using Saint Petersburg as a case study. The author conceptualizes the city as a symbolic space saturated with meanings that can be encoded and decoded. Accordingly, the study employs the category of the ‘cultural code’ as a relatively ...
Towards a dictionary of urban untranslatables
... (visual, auditory, tactile) alongside textual descriptions. Special attention is paid to cryptographic urban codes — spontaneous graffiti, inscriptions, and spatial modifications that are legible only to locals.
urban texts, untranslatability, cultural code, urban semiotics, municipal utility art, flânerie, jugaad, tertúlia, urban anthropology, visual methods
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10.5922/2225-5346-2025-4-10
