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To provide Londoners with a coherent wayfinding system, the Legible London designers have broken the city down into three key spatial hierarchies:
Areas: ‘broad areas of the city’ such as the West End;
Villages: ‘commonly used names’ which Londoners use to quickly connect one part of the city to another;
Neighbourhoods: there are several neighbourhoods in each village.

To provide Londoners with a coherent wayfinding system, the Legible London designers have broken the city down into three key spatial hierarchies:

  • Areas: ‘broad areas of the city’ such as the West End;
  • Villages: ‘commonly used names’ which Londoners use to quickly connect one part of the city to another;
  • Neighbourhoods: there are several neighbourhoods in each village.

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    London is generally...better at this sort of thing than other large cities.
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    To provide Londoners with a coherent...system, the Legible London designers have...
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