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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Urban Morphology
    sub title: An Introduction to the Study of the Physical Form of Cities
  name:
    name part: Oliveira, Vítor.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIII, 192 p. 65 illus., 19 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This is a book about cities or, more precisely, about the physical form of cities. It starts presenting the main elements of urban form – streets, urban blocks, plots and buildings – structuring our cities and the fundamental actors and processes of transformation shaping these elements. It then applies this analytical framework to describe the evolution of cities over history as well as to explain the functioning of contemporary cities. After the initial focus on the ‘object’ (cities) the book describes how different researchers and different schools of thought have been dealing with this object since the emergence of Urban Morphology, as the science of urban form, in the turning to the twentieth century. Finally, the book tries to identify what are the most important (and specific) contributions that Urban Morphology has to offer to contemporary cities, societies and economies.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Motivation -- Object of study -- Structure of the book -- The elements of urban form -- The concept of urban tissue -- The natural context -- The street system -- The plot system -- The building system -- Other elements -- The actors and processes of urban transformation -- Actors responsible for urban transformation -- Processes of urban transformation -- The city in history -- The Greek City -- The Roman city -- The Medieval city -- The Renaissance city -- The Baroque city -- The nineteenth century city -- The cities of the twentieth century -- The contemporary city -- New York -- Rome -- Sana’a -- The study of urban form: different approaches -- Classics in urban morphology -- Different morphological approaches -- Comparative studies of urban form -- From theory to practice -- Urban morphology and planning -- Urban morphology, building typology and architecture -- Relationships with other fields of knowledge -- Urban morphology and society -- Urban morphology and economy -- Urban form and energy -- Conclusions.
  note: by Vítor Oliveira.
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Culture
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: Urban geography
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable development
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable Development
  subject:
    topic: Regional and Cultural Studies
  classification: GF125
  classification: 307.76
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The Urban Book Series
  identifier: 9783319320830
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32083-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 160330
    record change date: 20170126141219.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-32083-0