Urban imagery and the main street of the nation: The legibility of Orchard Road in the eyes of Singaporeans

Urban Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 473-494

  Yeung, Henry Wai Chung ^a   Savage, Victor R ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEGIBILITY THEORY; LYNCH,K.; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC SURVEY; URBAN IMAGE;

SINGAPORE;

EID: 0029817583     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00420989650011870     Document Type: Article

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