The Handbook of Urban Morphology.

Intro -- The Handbook of Urban Morphology -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Contents -- Introduction -- DEFINITION OF URBAN MORPHOLOGY AND AIM OF THIS BOOK -- PART 1 Principles -- Core Concepts -- PROCESS -- CONFIGURATION AND TYPE -- HIERARCHY -- URBAN TISSUE -- COMPARISON, SYNTHESIS AND THE COMPOSITE VIEW -- References -- Origins and Approaches -- APPROACHES TO URBAN MORPHOLOGY -- THE TYPO-MORPHOLOGICAL APPROACH -- THE CONFIGURATIONAL APPROACH -- THE HISTORICO-GEOGRAPHICAL APPROACH -- THE SPATIAL ANALYTICAL APPROACH -- CITY IMAGE, TOWNSCAPE, PATTERNS AND LAYERS -- URBAN ECOLOGY -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE APPROACHES -- THE FOCUS OF THIS HANDBOOK -- References -- Aspects of Urban Form -- NATURAL ENVIRONMENT -- USE -- GENERIC FUNCTION -- MOVEMENT -- OCCUPATION -- SERVICING -- USE PATTERNS AND NEIGHBOURHOOD STRUCTURE -- SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DRIVERS -- CONTROL -- BUILT FORM -- THE PLACE OF SETTLEMENTS IN THE GENERIC STRUCTURE OF BUILT FORM -- INFRASTRUCTURE -- INTENTION -- CONSTRUCTION -- PERCEPTION -- THE VALUE OF DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES -- SENSORY AGENCY -- CITY IMAGE -- TOWNSCAPE AND TRADITIONAL TOPOGRAPHY -- NATURAL RESOURCE FLOWS -- HUMAN DIRECTED AND INDUCED RESOURCE FLOWS -- DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION -- THE REFERENCE ASPECT -- ASPECTS, DIVERSITY AND EXPERIENCE -- References -- Minimum Elements -- ELEMENTS -- ANALYTICAL VIEWS -- IDENTIFYING AND DESCRIBING BUILT FORM -- AMBIGUITY: CO-EXTENSIVE AND INTERMEDIATE ELEMENTS -- GENERIC STRUCTURE AND THE STATUS OF THE BLOCK -- PART 2 Methods -- The General Process of Analysis -- PLACE, PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THE STUDY -- GENERAL TYPES OF STUDY -- SCOPE -- THE STUDY AREA -- ARBITRARY BOUNDARIES -- GIVEN BOUNDARIES -- ELEMENT OR FEATURE BOUNDARIES -- ASPECTS -- LEVEL OF RESOLUTION -- TIME FRAME -- MIXED BOUNDARIES, ASPECTS, RESOLUTION AND TIME FRAME -- ASSESSING THE AVAILABLE INFORMATION -- INFORMATION GATHERING.

THE REFERENCE PLATFORM, DATA FORMATS AND RESOLUTION -- THE WORKING SET-UP AND WORKFLOWS -- PROJECT PLAN -- TYPES OF ANALYSIS AND THEIR ORDER -- FINAL OUTPUTS -- Desktop Analysis -- PLAN ANALYSIS -- SOURCES OF PLAN INFORMATION -- SET-UP -- NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND SITE -- ENVIRONMENT, ADAPTATION AND LEARNING -- SOURCES OF INFORMATION -- NATURAL FEATURES, STOCKS AND FLOWS AS ASSETS AND CONSTRAINTS -- ATTRACTORS AND LIMITS -- INFLECTIONS -- THE NATURAL MORPHOLOGICAL FRAME -- LOCAL MATERIALS -- OUTPUTS -- OVERALL GROWTH AND TRANSFORMATION -- PLAN SEQUENCING -- GROWTH IN EXTENT -- INTERNAL TRANSFORMATION -- PERSISTENCE -- THE BUILT MORPHOLOGICAL FRAME -- TRACES -- OUTPUTS -- SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DRIVERS -- OUTPUTS -- CONTROL -- TYPES OF AGENT -- TYPES OF CONTROL -- SOCIALLY ESTABLISHED CONTROL -- THE PUBLIC HIGHWAY -- PROPERTY AND TENURE -- REGULATION -- GOVERNMENTAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL -- THE ENTITIES CONTROLLED -- SOURCES OF INFORMATION -- OUTPUTS -- ROUTE STRUCTURE -- ROUTES AND THE ORIGINS OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT -- THE GENERAL PATTERN OF ROUTES AND SETTLEMENTS -- PRIMARY ROUTE TYPES BY POSITION -- EXTENSIVE URBAN AREAS -- LOCAL ROUTE TYPES BY POSITION -- SUB-SYSTEMS -- ACCOUNTING FOR DIFFERENT MODES -- WORKING TIPS -- INTERPRETATION AND USE OF THE RESULTS -- OUTPUTS -- BUILT FORM -- URBAN TISSUE, PLAN UNITS, CHARACTER AREAS AND GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS -- GENERIC TYPES, SPECIFIC TYPES AND EXAMPLES -- BASIC TECHNIQUES -- SUPPORTING TECHNIQUES -- BACK BOUNDARIES, SHARED STREETS AND DIFFERENT TYPES OF GRID -- UNIFORM AND MIXED PATTERNS -- VARIATION, RANGE AND LIMITS -- CHARACTERISTIC MIX, PREDOMINANT TYPES AND EXCEPTIONS -- LUMPING AND SPLITTING AND SUB-AREAS -- SIMPLE AND COMPLEX TISSUE -- INFRASTRUCTURE -- METROLOGICAL AND MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS -- LAND-COVER MAPPING AND REMOTE SENSING -- TEXT DESCRIPTIONS -- LINEAR MEASURES -- AREA MEASURES.

INDICES AND RATIOS -- ELEMENT DENSITY MEASURES -- ORIENTATIONS AND INFLECTIONS -- COMPONENT ELEMENTS AND THE PLOT AS THE MODULE OF URBAN TISSUE -- GROUPINGS OF TYPES -- OUTPUTS -- USE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD STRUCTURE -- DATA SOURCES -- CENTRES AND NEIGHBOURHOOD STRUCTURE -- PROCESS AND OUTPUTS -- CITY IMAGE, TOWNSCAPE AND OPEN SPACE NETWORK -- OPEN SPACE NETWORK -- OUTPUTS -- References -- Field Survey -- SURVEY PLANNING AND DESIGN -- RECORDING SHEETS -- SAMPLING -- WORKING TIPS -- PHOTOGRAPHY -- OTHER DIGITAL AIDS -- BUILT FORM -- THE DETAILED COMPONENTS OF URBAN TISSUE -- OUTPUTS -- ACCESS, FRONTAGE AND BOUNDARY TYPES -- FRONTS AND BACKS -- ACCESS AND ACTIVE FRONTAGE -- ACCESS POINTS -- BOUNDARY LINE TYPE ANALYSIS -- OUTPUTS -- USE -- USE OF PLOTS -- STREET SPACES AND PUBLIC REALM -- BEHAVIOUR TRACES -- OUTPUTS -- PERCEPTUAL STRUCTURE, CITY IMAGE ELEMENTS AND TOWNSCAPE -- PERCEPTUAL DESCRIPTORS -- VIEWCUE -- OUTPUTS -- PARTICIPATION AND EVALUATION -- COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION AND COLLABORATION -- EVALUATIVE ASSESSMENTS -- References -- Synthesis -- SETTLEMENT STRUCTURE -- A NOTE ON THE GENERIC FORM OF SETTLEMENTS -- TYPES OF SETTLEMENT BY POSITION, OUTLINE AND INTERNAL STRUCTURE -- SUCCESSIVE FRINGE FORMATION AND SETTLEMENT STRUCTURE -- PLAN SEAMS AND TRANSFORMATIONS -- OUTPUTS -- COMPOSITE CHARACTER, RELATIONSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS -- REGIONS AND CHARACTER AREAS -- ASSOCIATIONS -- COMBINING AND TOGGLING PLANS -- DIAGRAMS -- EXPERIENTIAL VIEW -- INTERACTIONS, DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION -- SPATIAL INTERACTIONS -- DEVELOPMENT -- EVOLUTION -- STOCKS AND FLOWS -- INTEGRATION -- COMPARISON -- COMBINING LOGICAL STRUCTURES -- FINAL OUTPUTS -- CIRCUS AND CRESCENT -- HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT -- SUMMARY DESCRIPTION -- ALIGNMENTS AND SPACES -- References -- PART 3 Applications -- Case Studies -- POSSIBLE FORMS: ALLOMETRY, MORPHOSPACE AND COMBINATORICS -- ALLOMETRY.

SPACEMATE -- MORPHOSPACE -- COMBINATORICS AND EMERGENCE -- MICROCLIMATE -- ENERGY USE: CITIES AND ENERGY STUDY -- ACOUSTICS -- LONDON -- PARIS -- BERLIN -- ISTANBUL -- FLOOR SPACE ACCESS -- HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE AND UNDERSTANDING: URBAN CHARACTERISATION OF CENTRAL HEREFORD -- SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INVESTIGATION: AHMEDABAD -- URBAN CHARACTER AND NEIGHBOURHOODS: BRIGHTON AND HOVE URBAN CHARACTERISATION STUDY -- MEASURES AND QUALITATIVE EVALUATION: MORPHO -- URBAN STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT PLANS: THE ANATOMY OF SPRAWL -- ROUTE STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT PLANS: NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE URBAN STRUCTURE STUDY -- ZONING PLANS AND REGULATIONS: RENNES AND PORTO -- TISSUE STUDIES: APPRAISAL, COLLABORATION AND EDUCATION -- BASIC TECHNIQUE -- APPRAISAL AND DESIGN -- COLLABORATION AND NEGOTIATION -- EDUCATION -- MASTERPLANNING AND REGENERATION: VILLA 31, BUENOS AIRES -- THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AS A DESIGN RESOURCE -- PLOT-BASED URBANISM -- THE CITY OF BATH MORPHOLOGICAL STUDY -- AD HOC MODIFICATION AS A BASIS FOR DESIGN -- The Medieval City -- Kingsmead -- References -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Sample Field Survey Record Sheet -- Further Reading -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- EULA.

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