TY - GEN
T1 - Extending the scope of urban morphology
AU - Larkham, Peter J.
PY - 2021/9/22
Y1 - 2021/9/22
N2 - The nature of urban morphology: focus, scale and complexity In thinking about this subject I take inspiration from the UK?s Royal Town Planning Institute, which focuses on what it has for decades called ?the art and science of town planning? (RTPI, 2020). Both artistic (ie humanistic) and scientific approaches are, to my mind, both useful and necessary in studying urban form. In fact, in looking at cities, which are increasingly large and complex artifacts, it seems that an artistic, or humanistic, perspective alone is insufficient ? though many have used it (eg Olsen, 1986). The increasing scale and complexity of our subject matter ? even for a relatively small city ? should lead us to consider a scientific perspective. So how we think about ?urban morphology? needs to change.
AB - The nature of urban morphology: focus, scale and complexity In thinking about this subject I take inspiration from the UK?s Royal Town Planning Institute, which focuses on what it has for decades called ?the art and science of town planning? (RTPI, 2020). Both artistic (ie humanistic) and scientific approaches are, to my mind, both useful and necessary in studying urban form. In fact, in looking at cities, which are increasingly large and complex artifacts, it seems that an artistic, or humanistic, perspective alone is insufficient ? though many have used it (eg Olsen, 1986). The increasing scale and complexity of our subject matter ? even for a relatively small city ? should lead us to consider a scientific perspective. So how we think about ?urban morphology? needs to change.
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Turkish conference on planning and morphology, ?Kent Morfoilojieri?, Ankara/online
BT - Kent Morfoilojieri
ER -