Morphological Research in Planning, Urban Design and Architecture (The Urban Book Series)

This book is about the relation between scientific research and professional practice on the built environment. The physical form of cities is structured in different elements of urban form. Each of these elements, and the way they are combined into distinct patterns, is shaped by various agents and processes of change. Planning, urban design and architecture are practice-oriented activities that have a significant impact on these elements. Yet, this ‘action’ on the physical form if cities tends to be separated from scientific ‘knowledge’ on this complex object. In fact, none of these activities is strongly related to urban morphology, the science of urban form. There are many reasons for this gap. One of the reasons is the lack of significant examples of how the bridging process can happen. The book addresses this specific issue. It gathers a number of cases, developed in the last years in different geographical contexts – from Latin America to Eastern Asia – that exemplify how tomove from scientific research to professional practice. Each case, or set of cases, is presented in one chapter. The first part of each chapter presents the morphological view of his/her author(s) on the process of city building; the second part exemplifies how this author moves from reading to design. Foreword References Contents Abbreviations List of Figures List of Tables 1 The Relation Between Research and Practice 1.1 The Gap Between Science and Practice 1.2 A Century of Urban Morphology: Cases of Researcher-Practitioners 1.3 Morphological Research in Planning, Urban Design and Architecture 1.4 The Researcher-Practitioner and the Structure of the Book References Part IUrban Morphology and Planning 2 Conzenian Research in Practice 2.1 German Origins 2.2 Urban Morphology and Planning 2.3 Morphological Regions and Urban Conservation 2.4 Research Concepts and Applications in Planning 2.5 Applications of the Conzenian Approach 2.6 International Collaboration 2.7 The Conzenian Approach and UNESCO 2.8 Reflections References 3 Conservation and (Sub)Urban Form: Reviewing Policy in Stratford Upon Avon, 2004–2019 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Conservation, Urban Morphology and Urban Planning 3.2.1 Tensions of Change and Non-change—Or Conservation 3.2.2 Character and Form 3.2.3 Planning and Conservation: Making It Work 3.3 The Stratford Example 3.3.1 Making the Policy: 2004 3.3.2 Adopting the Policy: 2005 3.3.3 Reviewing the Policy: 2020 3.4 Conclusions References Part IIUrban Morphology and Urban Design 4 Towards an Eclectic Urban Morphology 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The Plan D’ Occupation Des Sols (POS) for Asnières Sur Oise 4.3 The Application of the Asnières POS 4.4 Oxford West End Design Code 4.5 The Application of the West Oxford Design Code 4.6 Conclusions References 5 Is There a Normative Science of the Built Environment? 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The Description-Prescription Problem 5.3 The Idea of a Normative Science of Ethics 5.4 Normative Science and the Typological Process 5.5 The Potential Role of Urban Morphology in a Normative Science of the Built Environment 5.6 Language, Teaching and Intuition 5.7 A Case Study: The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal Quarter 5.8 Conclusion References Part IIIUrban Morphology and Architecture 6 Morphology and Typology: A Village as a Cultural and Environmental Process 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The Case Study of Huangzhuang 6.3 Settlement Geography 6.4 Land Policies and Urbanization 6.5 Housing Types 6.6 Site Plan 6.7 Building Type and Design 6.8 Conclusions References 7 The Terni Cemetery—Considerations on the Relationship Between Reading and Design 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The Forming Process 7.3 The Fabric 7.4 The Tectonic Sequence: Matter-Material-Element-Structure 7.5 The Language Issue 7.6 The Aesthetic Synthesis and the Future of the Project Technical Data References 8 Rigour and Respect for the Urban Context 8.1 Theoretical Principles and Methodological Questions 8.2 The Building, Erected Between the Theoretical Framework and the Critical Design Cogito 8.3 Conclusions References 9 Contemporary Architectural Projects as Interpretation of Urban and Social Contexts 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Quebec City and the Montcalm Neighbourhood 9.3 The Infill Strategies 9.4 An Urban Project ‘Between the Street and the Garden’ 9.5 A Small Garden in the Heart of Montcalm Neighbourhood 9.6 An Architecture Where Domestic Spaces Meet Urban Life References 10 On a Morphologically-Based Method for Architectural Practice: The Lindo Vale House 10.1 A Morphological View of Cities and City-Building Processes 10.2 The Morphological Analysis of Rua do Lindo Vale 10.3 The Design of a New Building in Rua do Lindo Vale 10.3.1 Conservation 10.3.2 Change 10.3.3 Conservation and Change in Different Urban Landscapes 10.4 Conclusions References 11 Atrium-House: An Exercise in Self-Analysis 11.1 Introduction 11.2 The House—Preliminaries 11.3 ‘Public’ Space and the Domestic Realm 11.4 Atrium and Axis 11.5 Domains, Not Sectors 11.6 Integration and Inversion 11.7 Co-presence and Co-awareness 11.8 Conclusion References 12 Morphological Research in Practice 12.1 The Science of Urban Form 12.2 Morphological Research in Planning and Urban Design Practice 12.3 Morphological Research in Architectural Practice 12.4 Final Reflections References This book is about the relation between scientific research and professional practice on the built environment. The physical form of cities is structured in different elements of urban form. Each of these elements, and the way they are combined into distinct patterns, is shaped by various agents and processes of change. Planning, urban design and architecture are practice-oriented activities that have a significant impact on these elements. Yet, this action on the physical form if cities tends to be separated from scientific knowledge on this complex object. In fact, none of these activities is strongly related to urban morphology, the science of urban form. There are many reasons for this gap. One of the reasons is the lack of significant examples of how the bridging process can happen. The book addresses this specific issue. It gathers a number of cases, developed in the last years in different geographical contexts from Latin America to Eastern Asia that exemplify how to move from scientific research to professional practice. Each case, or set of cases, is presented in one chapter. The first part of each chapter presents the morphological view of his/her author(s) on the process of city building; the second part exemplifies how this author moves from reading to design