%0 Journal Article
%T Narrating and explaining urban stories through inherited visual urban vocabulary
%A Matevz Juvancic
%A Spela Verovsek
%J Visual Communication
%@ 1741-3214
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1470357217727676
%X This article proposes and formulates the visual urban vocabulary for tacit, intuitive, experiential, but none-the-less fast, plausible, generative, informative, sketch-like composition and visualization of urban stories. Through visual and socially ¡®inherited¡¯ clues, the authors explain the complexities of urban spaces, their elements, interrelations and cause¨Ceffect phenomena to expert and non-expert public alike. The rules, syntax and overall advantages of such a vocabulary are grounded in the existing linguistic, cognitive, psychological theories, visual sociology and theories of urban design, combined and supported by the authors¡¯ own research into visualizations and tools for evaluating, understanding and presenting urban spaces. With many illustrations, the article demonstrates the use for ¨C and the use of ¨C generic urban stories in discussions about urbanity, urban environments, livable places, etc. and positions them into educational, research and participatory planning and commercial contexts
%K experiential visualization
%K lay public
%K urban design
%K urban qualities
%K visual communication
%K visual language
%K visual vocabulary
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1470357217727676