Overview
- Offers an innovative perspective on the relationship between research and practice
- Each author presents how their scientific research is applied into professional practice
- Proposes a new view of planning and architecture grounded on scientific morphological evidence
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Urban Morphology and Planning
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Urban Morphology and Urban Design
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Urban Morphology and Architecture
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About this book
This book is about the relation between scientific research and professional practice on the built environment. The physical form of cities is structured in different elements of urban form. Each of these elements, and the way they are combined into distinct patterns, is shaped by various agents and processes of change. Planning, urban design and architecture are practice-oriented activities that have a significant impact on these elements. Yet, this ‘action’ on the physical form if cities tends to be separated from scientific ‘knowledge’ on this complex object. In fact, none of these activities is strongly related to urban morphology, the science of urban form. There are many reasons for this gap. One of the reasons is the lack of significant examples of how the bridging process can happen. The book addresses this specific issue. It gathers a number of cases, developed in the last years in different geographical contexts – from Latin America to Eastern Asia – that exemplify how tomove from scientific research to professional practice. Each case, or set of cases, is presented in one chapter. The first part of each chapter presents the morphological view of his/her author(s) on the process of city building; the second part exemplifies how this author moves from reading to design.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
His research areas are urban morphology, urban planning, architecture, and cities. In these research areas, he has authored more than 200 publications and communications, including 40 papers in international peer-reviewed journals listed in Scopus or ISI. He has been working in different research projects supportedby national and international founding, and he has been part of several scientific and organizing committees of international conferences, including the 21st International Seminar on Urban Form (Chair of the Conference).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Morphological Research in Planning, Urban Design and Architecture
Editors: Vítor Oliveira
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66460-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66459-6Published: 26 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66462-6Published: 27 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-66460-2Published: 25 February 2021
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 230
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 100 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Geography, general, Urban Studies/Sociology