2020 №1 (66) Article 17

Kasatkina S. S.

A Spatial Semiotics of Ancient Urban Areas as a Resource for Sociocultural Development of a Region at the Example of the Vologda Region P. 128-136.

UDC 947(470.12)

The article defines the concept of “ancient urban areas” and comments on the author’s perception of spatial semiotics of ancient settlements. It also treats urban semiotic conventions as elements of urban space. The research employs historical-cultural, visual-semiotic and systemic-semiotic approaches in order to investigate such elements of urban space as concepts (history of ancient urban areas), structures (urban dwellers’ social life), and substrates (physical and mental space, urban landscape). The article analyzes the substrate of ancient settlements as a resource for sociocultural development based on the investigation of spatial semiotics of urban areas of the Vologda Region. The article maintains that the historical memory of an urban area, its material and mental landscape, its unique visual image are key semiotic conventions which may be used to efficiently promote sociocultural development of a region. The author speaks about some promising avenues for processing the spatial semiotics of ancient Russian settlements promoting their sociocultural development.

 

visual image of an urban settlement; urban settlements of the Vologda Region; ancient urban areas; historical memory of an urban settlement; semiotic conventions; spatial semiotics of urban settlements; urban space

 

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