The Handbook of Urban Morphology

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-118-74769-8
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 227 mm x 289 mm, Gewicht: 1280 g

Reihe: The Urban Handbook series

The Handbook of Urban Morphology
Karl Kropf

Urban morphology is a core discipline for both academic research and professional practice in a range of fields including urban design, architecture, planning, geography, archaeology and anthropology. It plays a central role in improving our understanding of the built environment as a diverse, complex structure that is the product of ongoing social processes and serves as our own habitat.

Conceived as a practical manual of morphological analysis, The Handbook of Urban Morphology brings together in one place the core concepts and principles of the discipline; specific, up-to-date guidance on analytical methods with clear step-by-step instructions and case studies demonstrating specific applications in research and professional practice. Illustrative material includes examples from Iran, China, Turkey, Brazil, France, Italy, the UK and the US, with case studies covering applications in theoretical morphology, environmental performance, historical characterisation, socio-cultural investigations, planning and design.

The result lays the foundation for taking forward and reconciling what might seem to be different views of urban form. It provides a common basis for seeing the built environment as a quasi-natural, emergent phenomenon, the material and medium of urban design, a repository of embodied ideas and the cultural expression of the societies that produce it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kropf, Karl

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

2 Introduction

Slowing down the normative impulse

12 Part 1 – Principles

14 1 Core Concepts 16 2 Origins and Approaches 20 3 Aspects of Urban Form 38 4 Minimum Elements

48 Part 2 – Methods

50 5 The General Process of Analysis 58 6 Desktop Analysis 116 7 Field Survey 132 8 Synthesis

174 Part 3 – Applications

176 9 Case Studies

230 Conclusion

232 Appendix

234 Further Reading

236 Illustration Credits

237 Index

Über Autor(innen)

The Author

Karl Kropf is Director of urban design consultancy Built Form Resource and Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. He has more than thirty years of experience in the fields of urban design, landscape architecture, architecture and historic conservation, working in the UK, France and the US. He combines academic research in urban morphology and practice in urban design with the aim of using insights from one to improve the other.