Overview
- Compels readers to look at the contributions of the discipline to contemporary cities
- Acts as a guide to the discipline of urban morphology
- Motivates students to apply urban morphology concepts and methods
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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'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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Morphology
Book Subtitle: An Introduction to the Study of the Physical Form of Cities
Authors: Vítor Manuel Araújo de Oliveira
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92454-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92453-9Published: 14 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92456-0Published: 15 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-92454-6Published: 13 December 2021
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXV, 240
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 70 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: First Edition Copyright Holder Name: Springer International Publishing Switzerland
Topics: Public Policy, Urban Studies/Sociology, Geography, general, Human Geography