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Wayfinding Analysis

Wayfinding Analysis is a method for assessing how easily people can navigate and orient themselves in buildings and urban environments. Rooted in Kevin Lynch's concept of legibility and developed further by Romedi Passini, it combines cognitive psychology, design principles, and empirical testing to diagnose navigation difficulties and design intuitive navigation systems.

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Wayfinding Analysis and Navigation Assessment
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / architecture
  • Lynch, K. (1960). The Image of the City. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. · URL
  • Passini, R. (1992). Wayfinding in Architecture. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York. · URL
  • Arthur, P., Passini, R. (1992). Wayfinding: People, Signs, and Architecture. McGraw-Hill Professional. · URL
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