ISUF, Urban Morphology and Human Settlements Advances and Prospects

How does the physical form of cities in different parts of the world respond to these dynamics? Can cities preserve fundamental elements of humankind's urban heritage while accommodating changes driven by the main socioeconomic and environmental needs of today? The field of urban morphology has...

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Other Authors: Oliveira, Vítor (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer Nature Switzerland 2024, 2024
Edition:1st ed. 2024
Series:The Urban Book Series
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Past and present
  • The history of ISUF and urban morphology
  • ISUF – A different type of academic society
  • The Journal Urban Morphology and Jeremy Whitehand’s comments
  • The historico-geographical approach to urban morphology
  • Recent developments in urban morphology in Italy
  • Escaping townscape – British architects and urban morphology
  • Part 2: Present and future
  • Mapping morphological futures – Plan-analysis and its cultural intersections
  • Infrastructure and territory – Leaving a trace in the contemporary (urban) archipelago
  • A cross-cultural conception of urban morphology
  • Working across boundaries in urban morphology
  • Social critique and design in the face of multiple crises: Directions for urban morphology
  • The present and future of human settlements, urban morphology and ISUF.