Teaching 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, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: The Urban Book Series,
• Θέματα: Environmental education.; Urban geography.; Engineering design.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Environmental and Sustainability Education.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Engineering Design.; Regional/Spatial Science.

This book brings together contributions from some of the foremost international experts in the field of urban morphology and addresses major questions such as: What exactly is urban morphology? Why teach it? What contents should be taught in an urban morphology course? And how can it be taught most...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Foreword
• Introduction: what is urban morphology
• The importance of urban morphology as an object of study
• Learning from urban form: the link between research and practice
• Urban design as urban morphology
• Inserting urbanity in a modern environment
• For a type-morphological approach to the study of urban form: the theory and method of reading
• Applying urban morphology in the teaching of urban design studios.