ISUF, Urban Morphology and Human Settlements
Author | : Vítor Oliveira |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 290 |
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ISBN | : 3031581369 |
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Author | : Vítor Oliveira |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 290 |
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ISBN | : 3031581369 |
Author | : Vitor Oliveira |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-06-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9783031581359 |
This book offers insight into the most important scientific society on urban morphology worldwide: the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF). After addressing the three-decade history of ISUF, the book analyses the present and future of this scientific society, of urban morphology, and of human settlements. This timely and fundamental reflection gathers contributions from present and past leadership of ISUF since its inception in 1994. Over the last three decades, the urban world has undergone major changes: the urban population is now higher than the rural population; more than half of the world's population lives on a single continent—Asia, home to almost three billion people in China and India alone—so geographical imbalance is considerable; and while half of the urban population still lives in small cities of fewer than 300,000 inhabitants, the number of megacities has increased significantly. 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 been continuously adjusting to the essential dynamics of its object of study. While developing and strengthening its most robust theories, concepts, and methods designed after the mid-twentieth century, urban morphology has been able to integrate innovative approaches for describing and explaining the emerging dynamics and patterns of urban form—often incorporating groundbreaking technologies for data collection, analysis, modelling, and simulation. But what is the role of urban morphology in science and society today? How effective is it in communicating a rigorous understanding of the urban landscape both to academics and researchers in other fields and to citizens in general? How successful is it in providing practitioners with relevant and useful knowledge that informs their action on cities' form and structure through spatial planning, urban design, and architecture? This book addresses these fundamental questions, offering academics, researchers, and practitioners comprehensive knowledge on human settlements, the field of urban morphology, and the role of ISUF in promoting groundbreaking morphological thought.
Author | : Vítor Manuel Araújo de Oliveira |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2021-12-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3030924548 |
'This is a textbook about cities or, more precisely, about the physical form of cities. It provides an overview of the main elements of urban form—streets, street blocks, plots and buildings—structuring our cities and the fundamental agents and processes of transformation shaping these elements. It applies this analytical framework to describe the evolution of cities over history as well as to explain the functioning of contemporary cities. After the initial focus on the 'object' (cities), the book introduces how different schools of thought have been dealing with this object since the emergence of Urban Morphology, as the science of urban form, in the turning to the twentieth century. Finally, the book identifies the main contributions of urban morphology to cities, societies and economies. This second edition of the book offers updated and more accurate knowledge on several morphological issues, presents expanded contents, and it has a more explicit didactic nature, including a set of exercises in the end of each chapter, that will help teachers and students (in architecture, geography, planning, history, sociology and urban studies) in acquiring and consolidating their urban morphological knowledge.
Author | : Eisa Esfanjary |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2017-12-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1474412807 |
Provides a concise up-to-date introduction to and overview of black nationalism in American history
Author | : Mohd Fairuz Shahidan |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3031485173 |
Author | : Betül Bektaş Ekici |
Publisher | : Livre de Lyon |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2021-09-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 238236193X |
Researches on Urban and Architectural Design Studies
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Philip Feifan Xie |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2018-11-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317023706 |
Morphological research studies the physical form of landscapes, including how landscape structures function and operate, the adaptability of forms, and how functions and forms change over time. Applying the methods and models of morphology to tourism, this innovative book explores some of the complex relationships between tourism and morphological changes in urban and rural destinations across the globe. Tourism-related impacts on the physical environment and sociocultural values surrounding a given destination reflect the need for both theoretical and empirical approaches to strengthen our understanding of the ways in which tourism functions. This study examines key sectors and locations such as coastal tourism, urban tourism, and waterfront redevelopment, which are increasingly important in terms of their influence on sociocultural and morphological transformation. It advocates that awareness of the critical link between temporospatial impacts and morphological progresses is necessary to accommodate changes within a pattern of evolutionary growth. International in scope, employing case studies from Asia, Australasia, the US, and Europe, this book makes a newcontribution to the literature and will be of interest to students and researchers of tourism planning, urban design, geography, environmental studies and landscape architecture.
Author | : Vítor Oliveira |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2018-04-25 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 3319761269 |
This book brings together contributions from some of the foremost international experts in the field of urban morphology and addresses major questions such as: What exactly is urban morphology? Why teach it? What contents should be taught in an urban morphology course? And how can it be taught most effectively? Over the past few decades there has been a growing awareness of the importance of urban form in connection with the many dimensions – social, economic, and environmental – of our lives in cities. As a result, urban morphology – the science of urban form, and now over a century old – has taken on a key role in the debate on the past, present and future of cities. And yet it remains unclear how urban morphologists should convey the main morphological theories, concepts and techniques to our students – the potential researchers of, and practitioners in, the urban landscapes of tomorrow. This book is the first to address that gap, providing concrete guidelines on how to teach urban morphology, complemented by EXAMPLES OF EXERCISES FROM THE AUTHORS’ LESSONS.
Author | : Vítor Oliveira |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2016-03-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3319320831 |
This is a book about cities or, more precisely, about the physical form of cities. It starts presenting the main elements of urban form – streets, urban blocks, plots and buildings – structuring our cities and the fundamental actors and processes of transformation shaping these elements. It then applies this analytical framework to describe the evolution of cities over history as well as to explain the functioning of contemporary cities. After the initial focus on the ‘object’ (cities) the book describes how different researchers and different schools of thought have been dealing with this object since the emergence of Urban Morphology, as the science of urban form, in the turning to the twentieth century. Finally, the book tries to identify what are the most important (and specific) contributions that Urban Morphology has to offer to contemporary cities, societies and economies.