Teaching Urban Morphology

Teaching Urban Morphology edited by Vítor Oliveira.

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...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Oliveira, Vítor (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:The Urban Book Series,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Environmental education.
Urban geography.
Engineering design.
Regional economics.
Spatial economics.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: what is urban morphology
  • The importance of urban morphology as an object of study
  • Learning from urban form: the link between research and practice
  • Urban design as urban morphology
  • Inserting urbanity in a modern environment
  • For a type-morphological approach to the study of urban form: the theory and method of reading
  • Applying urban morphology in the teaching of urban design studios.

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