My immediate purpose in offering a specific definition of urban morphology at the Delft ISUF
conference1 was to attempt to place discussion of the problems of comparative study in the …

Michael Conzen's keynote address at last year's ISUF conference in Delft triggered a vibrant
discussion on what urban morphology is about. The trigger was the definition of urban …

It is 25 years since Pierre Merlin and Françoise Choay (1986) undertook their report on
urban morphology in France, Italy, Great Britain and the United States on behalf of the …

Urban morphology is a thriving field of enquiry involving researchers from a wide diversity of
disciplinary, linguistic and cultural backgrounds. While this diversity has helped advance our …

We are supposedly in an age of interdisciplinary inquiry, and few research domains
concerned with the relationship of humans to their habitat call for this more obviously than …

Considerable attention has been drawn over the years to the gaps that exist between the
various approaches to urban morphology, and, not least, the gap between urban …

When I gave a lecture to the Urban Design Group (UDG) in London on the subject of urban
morphology, I started by stating my unapologetic determination to use the term urban …

Conceived as a practical manual of morphological analysis, The Handbook of Urban
Morphology focuses on the form, structure and evolution of human settlements–from villages …

The development of new understanding in emerging fields of study is followed naturally by
the urge to apply or test this in practice. In the field of urban morphology, however, we find …

This chapter develops a cross-disciplinary philosophical basis for the study of urban
morphology within the sciences and the humanities, with particular emphasis on the …