The book constitutes the third delivery of the whole gathering of contributions presented at the first European Regional Congress of the International Association of Visual Semiotics (AISV-IAVS). This congress, under the theme "Semiotics of Space / Spaces of Semiotics", was held at Lisbon. It was successfully devoted to the study of spatial phenomena envisaged as a process of signification, that relates to architecture, to geography, to urbanism, to communication, to design, to plastic arts, to cyberculture, to performance, to television, and the cinema, to literature, or to marketing.