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Urban morphology and the shaping of the transmissable city

City, Jan 1, 2000

Some recent work in architecture has begun to think through the implications of an electronically... more Some recent work in architecture has begun to think through the implications of an electronically mediated environment - both in terms of new forms of spaces and of changes to existing ones. New possibilities are read as resulting from these new technologies not only in ...

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Mapping urban morphology: a classification scheme for interpreting contributions to the study of urban form

Urban Morphology, Jan 1, 2006

Urban morphology is a thriving field of enquiry involving researchers from a wide diversity of di... more Urban morphology is a thriving field of enquiry involving researchers from a wide diversity of disciplinary, linguistic and cultural backgrounds. While this diversity has helped advance our understanding of the complexity of urban form, confusion and controversy has also arisen over the various theoretical formulations forwarded by researchers from different philosophical and epistemological backgrounds. With the aim of improving intelligibility in the field, this paper proposes a straightforward scheme to identify, classify and interpret, or 'map', individual contributions to the study of urban form according to their respective theoretical or epistemological perspectives. Drawing upon epistemological discussions familiar to the readers of this journal, the authors first distinguish between cognitive and normative studies. A second distinction is made between internalist studies that consider urban form as a relatively independent system, and externalist studies in which urban form stands as a passive product of various external determinants. Using these basic criteria, it is possible to interpret and synthesize a multitude of contributions and map them using a simple Cartesian grid. The paper highlights how contributions from seemingly different theoretical approaches to urban morphology are intrinsically similar in their treatment of urban form as an object of enquiry.

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URBAN MORPHOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION AND EVALUATION OF THE THEORIES AND THE METHODS [J]

City Planning Review, Jan 1, 2001

This paper stresses that the morphological analysis and environmental behavior studies should tak... more This paper stresses that the morphological analysis and environmental behavior studies should take as the main method for analyzing the urban morphology in the theory system of the urbanization process based by the political economics analysis. This active and open study framework ...

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Urban morphology as an emerging interdisciplinary field

Urban morphology, Jan 1, 1997

The forces and events leading to the formation of the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF) ... more The forces and events leading to the formation of the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF) are identified. ISUF is expanding the field of urban morphology beyond its original confines in geography, particularly into the domains of architecture and planning. Three schools of urban morphology, in England, Italy and France, are coming together, following seminal work by two morphologists, M.R.G.

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