This paper will try to explore the theoretical possibilities of multi-layered semiotic model of aesthetic cognition of environment, based on analysis of 'decollage' surfaces found in underground New York. Distinctive features and social implications of these surfaces will enable us to relate them to the environment and select them as an environmental aesthetic model, as well as to see how closely environmental aesthetics is related to semiotic systems. We will try to illustrate their

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... ion from both structural point of view, by identifying structure, and text-semiotical (post-structural) point of view, who's focus is on text as an infinite set of structures. Based on these two differences of reading, we will stress on the productive activity of signification, with aim towards redefinition and expanded signification of environment.