Course info

This course is about urban morphology. It is hard to find shared definitions, by different morphological approaches, of ‘urban morphology’ and ‘urban form’. The course draws on the basic definition that urban morphology means the study of urban forms, and the agents and processes responsible for their transformation and that urban form refers to the main physical elements that structure and shape cities—streets (and squares), street blocks, plots, and common and singular buildings, to name the most important. The theme of the different elements of urban form will be developed in detail later in the course. In this course, the word ‘city’ is used in its wider sense, encompassing most human settlements.