"Place and Location: Studies in Environmental Aesthetics and Semiotics" IV is for the most part dedicated to articles written by Estonian scholars and researchers. It is intended to provide a glimpse into the present state and current topics of Estonian location-studies, primarily its semiotics-oriented line.
The articles in this volume have been grouped into three sections.
In the first section, methods of structuralist semiotics are applied in order to demonstrate that these are very relevant in the analysis of several social phenomena.
In the second section, the common denominator of the articles is the interest in the spatial phenomena as they appear in different texts, applying mostly the analytic tools from semiotics and literary studies.
The topics of the third section move on into 'spatial reality', investigating the various ways and effects of human immaterial interference upon it. Topics such as tourism, the image of the city in movies, art in the urban environment, and the impact of the virtual upon the real are discussed.
