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  1. ribbonfarm.com

    A Big Little Idea Called Legibility July 26, 2010 By Venkatesh Rao James C. Scott's fascinating and seminal book, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Imp rove the Human Condition Have Failed , examines how, across dozens of domains, ranging from agriculture and forestry, to urban planning and census-taking, a very predictable failure ...
  2. en.wikipedia.org

    Legibility is the ease with which a reader can decode symbols. In addition to written language, it can also refer to behaviour [1] or architecture, [2] for example. From the perspective of communication research, it can be described as a measure of the permeability of a communication channel.A large number of known factors can affect legibility. In everyday language, legibility is commonly ...
  3. blogs.lse.ac.uk

    Sometimes, you learn about an idea that really sticks with you. This happened to me recently when I learnt about "legibility" — a concept which James C Scott introduces in his book Seeing like a State. Just last week, I was involved in two conversations which highlighted how pervasive the logic of legibility continues to be in influencing how governments think and act.
  4. "A Big Little Idea Called Legibility" by Venkatesh Rao "Rethinking the State: Perspectives on the Legibility and Reproduction of Political Societies" by Sage Publications "The (il)logic of legibility - Why governments should stop simplifying complex systems" by Thea Snow, the London School of Economics
  5. devonzuegel.com

    A Big Little Idea Called Legibility clipping. September 18th, 2019. July 26, 2010 By Venkatesh Rao. ... Central to Scott's thesis is the idea of legibility. He explains how he stumbled across the idea while researching efforts by nation states to settle or "sedentarize" nomads, pastoralists, gypsies and other peoples living non-mainstream ...
  6. Legibility in Ethics The second conversation came up as part of a project I'm doing with Lorenn Ruster from the 3A Institute, which is exploring what role the value of dignity plays in shaping ...
  7. johnweldon.com

    A Big Little Idea Called Legibility. Venkatesh Rao, of ribbonfarm.com, wrote about the idea of states and large organizations frequently imposing "order" on pre-existing chaotic systems, in an effort to improve legibility.. His primary source is the book Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, in which the author, James C. Scott, describes some ...
  8. A Big Little Idea Called Legibility James C. Scott's fascinating and seminal book, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Imp rove the Human Condition Have Failed, examines how, across dozens of domains, ranging from agriculture and forestry, to urban planning and census-taking, a very predictable failure pattern keeps recurring.
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  1. Legibility

    Legibility is the ease with which a reader can decode symbols. In addition to written language, it can also refer to behaviour or architecture, for example. From the perspective of communication research, it can be described as a measure of the permeability of a communication channel. A large number of known factors can affect legibility. In everyday language, legibility is commonly used as a synonym for readability. In graphic design, however, legibility is often distinguished from readability. Readability is the ease with which a reader can follow and understand words, sentences and paragraphs. While legibility usually refers to the visual clarity of individual symbols, readability is more about their arrangement or even the choice of words. Legibility is a component of readability. The legibility of text is most often examined by controlled deterioration of viewing conditions and determination of threshold detection. Not all writing benefits from optimizing for legibility. Wikipedia

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