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Karl Kropf (Roger Evans Associates Ltd, UK)

The Handbook of Urban Morphology

Karl Kropf (Roger Evans Associates Ltd, UK)

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English
John Wiley & Sons Inc
06 October 2017
City & town planning - architectural aspects
Series: The Urban Handbook series
The Handbook of Urban Morphology

Karl Kropf

Urban morphology is a core discipline for both academic research and professional practice in a range of fields including urban design, architecture, planning, geography, archaeology and anthropology. It plays a central role in improving our understanding of the built environment as a diverse, complex structure that is the product of ongoing social processes and serves as our own habitat.

Conceived as a practical manual of morphological analysis, The Handbook of Urban Morphology brings together in one place the core concepts and principles of the discipline; specific, up-to-date guidance on analytical methods with clear step-by-step instructions and case studies demonstrating specific applications in research and professional practice. Illustrative material includes examples from Iran, China, Turkey, Brazil, France, Italy, the UK and the US, with case studies covering applications in theoretical morphology, environmental performance, historical characterisation, socio-cultural investigations, planning and design.

The result lays the foundation for taking forward and reconciling what might seem to be different views of urban form. It provides a common basis for seeing the built environment as a quasi-natural, emergent phenomenon, the material and medium of urban design, a repository of embodied ideas and the cultural expression of the societies that produce it.
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Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 285mm,  Width: 218mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   1.293kg
ISBN:   9781118747698
ISBN 10:   1118747690
Series:   The Urban Handbook series
Pages:   256
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction 2 Slowing down the normative impulse Part 1 – Principles 12 1 Core Concepts 14 2 Origins and Approaches 16 3 Aspects of Urban Form 20 4 Minimum Elements 38 Part 2 – Methods 48 5 The General Process of Analysis 50 6 Desktop Analysis 58 7 Field Survey 116 8 Synthesis 132 Part 3 – Applications 174 9 Case Studies 176 Conclusion 230 Appendix 232 Further Reading 234 Illustration Credits 236 Index 237

The Author Karl Kropf is Director of urban design consultancy Built Form Resource and Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. He has more than thirty years of experience in the fields of urban design, landscape architecture, architecture and historic conservation, working in the UK, France and the US. He combines academic research in urban morphology and practice in urban design with the aim of using insights from one to improve the other.

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