urban morphology can make to contemporary societies. The second principle is that morpho, in common with most morphological approaches, involves a selection of a reduced set of physical elements to describe and explain the city in morphological terms: the streets, the plots and the buildings. This is not novel: other examples can be found in ...

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representations with respect to urban morph-ology. This involves identifying three urban morphological ‘media’ – urban land, plots and building footprints – and their typical relation-ships. Relations to existing terminology are interpreted, and examples of typical area structures and their representation by diagrams

In this paper a number of themes in urban morphology are discussed. Most of the publications referred to are in Japanese, and in only a few cases have these been translated into English. Some have appeared in English-language journals, but obtaining an under-standing of most of the research on urban morphology in Japan is not feasible without an

‘Public space as the generator of urban form’ by Tarsicio Salcedo, ‘Imagining new forms: urban morphology and design practice’ by Michele Beccu, and the more analytical and historical paper on ‘The Italian plaza: a model for comprehensive analysis’ by Donald Corner and Jenny Young. In the architectural heritage session, Howard Davis

Urban morphology is often equated with urban form. Each represents what might be described as a ‘big tent’ for interest in and understanding of

research. This relies on more precise explanations of urban morphological concepts, addressing urban morphology and its varied methods, including space syntax. These publications are categorized by the scale, methodological approach, elements examined, temporal dimension, cities studied, techniques used, relation to other fields of knowledge ...

showed that urban morphology can be divided into four processes that should be seen as integrated parts: reading urban form, projecting new concepts, materializing these concepts, and lived space.

the analysis of urban form. For this reason the typological debate in Italy has always had a strong ideological component. Instead of a common attempt at mutual understanding, urban morphology has been strongly characterized by a systematic, reciprocal misunderstanding among its …

in urban morphology Understanding place? Ivor Samuels, Urban Morphology Research Group, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. E-mail: [email protected] ‘Understanding place’ is central to the concerns of urban morphologists, so a publication with that title