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This chapter reflects on the possible reasons for the neglect of the concepts of urban morphology by British architects, in stark contrast to the number of French and Italian architects whose writings in the last decades of the twentieth century have been central to the development of the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF). It discusses asp...
Em resposta à enorme demanda por habitação no sudeste da Inglaterra e à preocupação com a manutenção do caráter local em novos empreendimentos, este artigo descreve uma tentativa de apresentar os conceitos de morfologia urbana aos gestores de projeto de uma grande empresa construtora. Eles, assim como os planejadores que os controlam, tendem a se c...
InOctober1985,theSeminar"Morphologieurbaineetparcellaire",organizedbyPierreMerlin,FrançoiseChoayandothers,washeldin"ArcetSenans",designedbyLedouxinthe18thcentury.Theeventwasdividedintothethemes:“Urbanmorphologyseenbyinternationalspecialists”and“Thecontributionoftheanalysisofurbanparcels”.TheobjectiveofthisworkistodiscussChoay'scontributionintheanna...
Em outubro de 1985, o Seminário "Morphologie urbaine et parcellaire", organizado por Pierre Merlin, Françoise Choay e outros foi realizado em "Arc et Senans", projetado por Ledoux no século XVIII. O evento foi dividido nos temas: “A morfologia urbana vista por especialistas internacionais” e “A contribuição da análise de parcelas urbanas”. O objeti...
Urban morphology examines the physical form and structure of cities, processes of formation and transformation, and dynamics of urban change. There are different schools and approaches how to study urban form. The International Seminar of Urban Form (ISUF) is established around three morphological schools deriving from geography and architecture/ur...
Urban spaces are defined by degrees of axial and convex extension. Space Syntax research has predominantly emphasized axial lines and maps and considered convexity through isovists and visibility graphs. Axiality emphasizes movement or flow and creates axi al maps as two-dimensional networks. Convexity of urban space is aural and shaped by vision a...
This project on post-socialist urban form in Belgrade and Krakow was undertaken by the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, Cracow University of Technology and the Institute of Architecture and Urban and Spatial Planning of Serbia, involving field visits to both cities. A brief historical review and discussion of planning contexts is fo...
Computer-Aided Architectural Design (CAAD) finds its historical precedents in technological enthusiasm for generative algorithms and architectural intelligence. Current developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and paradigms in Machine Learning (ML) bring new opportunities for creating innovative digital architectural tools, but in practice this...
This project on post-socialist urban form in Belgrade and Krakow was undertaken by the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, Cracow University of Technology and the Institute of Architecture and Urban and Spatial Planning of Serbia, involving field visits to both cities. A brief historical review and discussion of planning contexts is fo...
Digital ubiquity brings revelations of emerging smart cities. However, planners and urban designers remain resistant to digitalization trends and remain devoted to traditional sketching and hand drawing. A major problem in digitizing planning and urban design practices is the misfit with current software. Urban designers need to deliver engaging il...
This chapter will examine two planning instruments. Both were adopted by their commissioning planning authorities and their preparation incorporated approaches from the urban morphology spectrum. The Plan d’ Occupation des Sols (POS) for Asnières sur Oise was adopted by the Commune of Asnières sur Oise in 1992. The Oxford West End Design Code (OWED...
New developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital ubiquity bring revelations of emerging smart cities. However, urban designers are particularly reluctant to become digital and use software that automatically generates cities. Instead, they return to traditional design skills such as creating scale models, sketching, notations and drafti...
Based on recently published work (Djordjevic & Milojevic, 2018; Kantarek, Kwiatkowski
& Samuels, 2018) and current studies work at Belgrade University and Cracow University of
Technology, recent developments in these cities are compared with UK projects, mainly in Oxford. The projects are located on an urban transect from city centre to urban perip...
With an extensive record of geographical research, Jeremy Whitehand’s career lies firmly at the cognitive end of the urban morphology spectrum set out by Gauthier and Gilliland (2006). Practice, in the sense of intervening in the built environment through the medium of projects or plans, whether executed or adopted as policies, is rarely carried ou...
Para ganar un entendimiento de la planificación del sistema educativo en Inglaterra debemos en primer lugar considerar las disposiciones para la educación tras la escuela antes de dirigirse al caso particular del planeamiento. La Universidad Británica todavía se caracteriza por su naturaleza elitista --no hay un derecho automático a la educación tr...
Instruments of analysis of urban form have been developed to a high degree of sophistication and complexity by academic researchers to the extent that even the term urban morphology can put off the use of these methods by practitioners and those enrolled in design courses––architects, urban designers and town planners. This chapter describes how th...
This paper considers the first stage of Nova Huta New Town built near Krakow in the 1950s. In contrast to UK and US new settlements of the post war period it is a high density apartment block development which was ignored in the literature for more than half a century because its design, based on a system of streets, is in contrast with contemporar...
This paper assesses the 2006 Plano Director Municipal of Porto, Portugal as a contribution to the ISUF Task Force on Research and Practice in Urban Morphology. It focuses on the application of the urban tissue concept and is in three parts: i) an assessment of the plan and its typological approach; ii) an assessment of the results on the ground; an...
The chosen trail of the first French edition - Paris, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt - is one of continuously evolving modernity. It outlines a history, which, in one century (1860-1960), completely changed the aspect of our towns and cities and transformed our way of life. The shock has been such that we are still looking for answers, still attempti...
review of [Palladio’s children ... and Vitruvius’s grandchildren?]
review of [Conzen's last bolt: reflections on Thinking about urban form]
In response to massive housing demand in south-east England and concern for the retention of local character in new development, this paper describes an attempt to introduce the concepts of urban morphology to the design managers of a large house builder. They, like the planners controlling them, tend to focus exclusively on building detail to the...
This plan involves the application of typomorphological methods to different stages of the plan preparation process for a French alpine resort. The methods, determined by limited resources, are used to explore and select local building types which form the basis of the plan. Within a tightly prescribed legal framework, the main issue is to promote...
Within the project of using morphological techniques as a prescriptive tool, the experience is evaluated of implementing a local plan for a small French town prepared using these methods. The issues, which emerge from questioning principal actors, include the problem of gaining a political consensus for the approach and the availability of adequate...
El artículo del profesor Ivor Samuels empieza con el enfoque del marco general de la enseñanza universitaria con su carácter todavía de élite, Y con la gran competencia para el acceso a las plazas limitadas -un promedio de una por cada diez candidatos en arquitectura y planeamiento-, subrayando la buena disponibilidad de becas para los cursos de gr...
Briefly reviews the role and future of the architect in town planning. In an attempt to provide architects with training in urban design Oxford Polytechnic established a Diploma and MA programme in the Joint Centre for Urban Design. Describes the philosophy and structure of the course.-R.Land
