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Part Three:
Principles of

wayfinding design
Chapter 6
What is wayfinding design?
  • Spatial planning
    Setting the stage
    The role of decision diagrams in spatial planning
  • Environmental communication
    Communication for decision making: the script
    The form of information
    Communication for cognitive mapping
  • An integrated view of wayfinding design

Chapter 7
Who is involved in wayfinding design?
  • The design profession
    Architects and urban planners
    Environmental graphic designers
    Landscape architects
  • Management
    The owners
    Building managers
    Security personnel and fire marshals

Chapter 8
For whom do we plan?
  • User groups
  • The unimpaired user
  • Perceptual impairment
    Visual impairment and blindness
    Hearing impairment and deafness
  • Cognitive impairment
    Situational cognitive impairment
    Developmental cognitive impairment
  • Illiteracy
    Functional illiteracy
    Multi-lingual illiteracy
    Mobility impairment
    Persons in wheelchairs
    Mobility impaired who can walk
  • Macro- and micro-approaches to planning

Chapter 9
Planning for wayfinding conditions
  • Day-to-day conditions
    Travel conditions
    Working conditions
    Playing conditions
    Retail conditions
  • Emergency conditions