Contributors / Lectureres
This chapter has been developed by Sepideh Zarrin Ghalam from Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU).
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the fundemenatls of urban morphology
- Recognize key elemenst of study, agents, processes, and forces that shape urban form and influence the evolution of cities
- Design and implement morphological studies with well-defined scope of work and informed choices of methodologies, tailored to the context of urban reconstruction and regeneration
Tools
- Urban morphology as a conceptual tool
- Historico-geographic approach
- Typo-morphological approach
- Configuratoonal approach (basics of space sytax)
Case Studies
- Pre-war Morphological Documentation of the Old City of Aleppo
- Post-war Reconstruction of Parizer Platz in Berlin
Key Literature
- Kropf, K. (2017). The Handbook of Urban Morphology. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Oliveira, V. (2022). Urban Morphology, An Introduction to the Study of Physical Form of Cities. Springer.