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The Relation Between Research and Practice

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This introduction frames the debate for the chapters that follow. It opens the discussion by providing brief insights into the relation between science and practice in several different fields before addressing specifically the urban landscape and the cases of researcher-practitioners whose work has been fundamental in the development of urban morphology. It reflects on the main challenges, strengths, difficulties and threats, that the research-practice relation currently faces, highlighting the main contribution of the book, and of each chapter, to the debate.

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The author is indebted to JWR Whitehand and Susan Whitehand for their detailed comments on an earlier version of this chapter. He is also grateful to Ivor Samuels for the reading of a draft version.

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Oliveira, V. (2021). The Relation Between Research and Practice. In: Oliveira, V. (eds) Morphological Research in Planning, Urban Design and Architecture. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66460-2_1

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