This paper explores urban legibility and the associated elements that contribute to the image of the city. It investigates the graphics of the 15th. Asia Games that took place in Doha, December 2006, while placing emphasis on environmental graphics as a vehicle for shaping our indoor and outdoor visual environment. Utilizing the concept of environmental quality and its underlying notion of legibility, the paper analytically describes the environmental graphics of the games event and preliminarily measures Doha residents’ reactions to graphics-based urban settings within the city. The results of performing these procedures reveal that environmental graphics can contribute in shaping the memory of city images and can help establish associations between people past, present and future experience of urban scenes. such results call for including environmental graphics in the work of architects and urban designers toward shaping better memorable images of cities.
Hasanin, Abeer A. "Urban Legibility and Shaping the Image of Doha: Visual Analysis of the Environmental Graphics of the 15th Asian Games," in ArchNet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research, vol. 1, issue 3 (2007).
