Over the past few decades, several analytical approaches have been developed to
understand urban form and to address the complexity of human settlements as well as …

Urban morphology is the study of the physical form of cities and of the agents and processes
shaping its transformation over time. One of the most prominent approaches in the urban …

In recent issues of this journal much has been written about the relationship between
research and practice in urban morphology. This has been stimulated in no small part by the …

Mainstream practice on the built environment has often become closed in its own
idiosyncrasies, disconnected from fundamental socioeconomic and environmental …

The origins, main developments and fundamental characteristics of urban morphology are
addressed in this chapter, making evident the crucial role of the International Seminar on …

This introduction frames the debate for the chapters that follow. It opens the discussion by
providing brief insights into the relation between science and practice in several different …

En un contexto como el actual, cuando proliferan las apelaciones a un nuevo urbanismo
socio-ecológico y cualitativo, las investigaciones sobre las formas urbanas podrían parecer …

The study aims to demonstrate the importance of typomorphological knowledge as a method
of contextual analysis in architectural design education. The Architectural Design Studio is a …

In comparison with North America and other large European countries, Spain has
historically had a limited international presence in academic urban morphology. This is …

Este artículo presenta el proyecto docente de una de las escuelas españolas de última
generación para introducir a los alumnos de primer curso en los temas propios del …