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Wayfinding: Principles and Practice Self-test Exam

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This self-test exam is to be completed after reading "Wayfinding: Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition."  Successful completion of this exam will earn you 2.0 professional development hours through the Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System (LA CES).

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For each of the 12 questions below, please select one answer or enter a free text response as indicated.

*1. Who is credited with introducing the term “wayfinding” and what is the name of the publication in which it appeared?


*2. In addition to other graphic, written, or audible methods to convey location, route-finding, and directions to travelers, wayfinding usually refers to which two modern systems?


*3. Master planning and site development typically must address and include signs and wayfinding elements.

*4. In order to provide accessible guidance to different populations, it may be necessary to incorporate non-visual components into wayfinding systems. List 2 other forms of communication that may be needed.


*5. What document provides the standards used nationwide to implement and manage the warning, regulatory, and directional signs on all roadways?

*6. Which of the typefaces have been shown to be more legible?

*7. When it comes to developing wayfinding maps, it is almost impossible to provide too much information for users.

*8. List 2 green design elements that can be incorporated into wayfinding systems or programs.


*9. What philosophy has guiding principles that state that environments must be amenable and accessible to people regardless of age or ability?

*10. Interpretive systems can and should be part of a “family” of signing and wayfinding elements. Give three examples of what these elements might include.



*11. Which of the following choices describes, in order, the steps to creating a wayfinding program?

*12. For contrast on signs, darker colored lettering on lighter backgrounds typically provides better contrast and is more readable, particular at night.


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