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The study focuses on the role played by heritage in pedestrian mobility in urban areas. The urban sustainable development constitutes the analytical frame of this work by trying to provide urban quality.This includes formal, functionnal and sensitive approach of the territory. The legibility in particular is an important aspect of urban quality. It points out how pedestrian shape and form their landmarks and which type of orientation strategies they adopt. Regarding to the state of the litterature, many autors have written about the status of pedestrian mobility in town, but few of them analyse the link existing between heritage and urban walking. In this work, we consider heritage as a dynamic territorial resource intimately linked to sustainable urban development and walking. We try to point out how pedestrians use landmarks to find out their way properly. After reviewing the characteristics of official classic signage, we highlight these limits and we propose an alternative. The intuitive signage provides legible urban design. Landmarks are made by walkers and users themselves and they refer to their own intuitive references. Intuitive signage shows the great influence of the environment on pedestrians. In fact, pedestrian’s sensory experiences and feelings influence the building and the shaping of their landmarks. With this in mind, the heritage plays an important role in the walking strategies, as part of the environment which can be linked with emotions, identity and sensory experience, thus ultimately producing meaning and landmarks for walkers and users. Analyzing Geneva’s old town, we study the way in which heritage is included in pedestrians strategies. We also examine how official heritage as well as user-generated heritage is used, constituting what we could call intutive signage heritage. |
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