Urban Identities

This guide offers a rare treasury of ideas and inspiration for environmental designers, city planners and other professionals involved with sign systems. Urban Identities profiles 49 finely crafted urban identity programs from around the world -- successful systems created for heritage trails, college campuses, public transit, riverwalks, streetscapes and more. Leslie Gallery Dilworth, the mind behind Direction Philadelphia and other model urban sign systems, provides deft insight on the issues of urban sign planning, including funding options and maintenance.