J.W.R. Whitehand and the Historico-geographical Approach to Urban Morphology

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Oliveira, Vítor (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: The Urban Book Series,
• Θέματα: Urban geography.; Cities and towns-History.; Historical geography.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Urban History.; Historical Geography.

Over recent decades, the historico-geographical approach to urban morphology has been prominent in the debate on the physical form of our cities and on the agents and processes shaping that form over time. With origins in the work of the geographer M.R.G. Conzen, this approach has been systematicall...

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• An Introduction to the Work of JWR Whitehand
• Urban Morphological Regions: Development of an Idea
• Fringe Belts
• Agents and Agency in the Urban Landscape
• Rigour and Comparison in Urban Morphology: Through the lens of JWR Whitehand. Research and Practice
• Ivor Samuels
• JWR Whitehand: 50 Years of Urban Morphological Research.