AbstractThe organization of modern city planning into "neighborhood units" – most commonly associated with the Clarence Perry proposal 1929 has been enormously influential in evolution form, and at same time also subject intense controversy debate that continues to present day. New issues under include social economic diversity, maintenance viable pedestrian public transit modes, viability internalized community service hubs, efficient use energy natural resources, including greenhouse gas...

Unprecedented urbanisation processes characterise the Great Acceleration, urging urban researchers to make sense of data analysis in support evidence-based and large-scale decision-making. Urban morphologists are no exception since impact form on fundamental natural social patterns (equity, prosperity resource consumption’s efficiency) is now fully acknowledged. However, morphology still far from offering a comprehensive reliable framework for quantitative analysis. Despite remarkable...

Earth Observation (EO)-based mapping of cities has great potential to detect patterns beyond the physical ones. However, EO combined with surge machine learning techniques map non-physical, such as socioeconomic, aspects directly, goes expense reproducibility and interpretability, hence scientific validity. In this paper, we suggest shifting focus from direct detection socioeconomic status raw images through image features, interpretable urban morphology basic elements an intermediate step,...

The modern discipline of urban morphology gives us a ground for the comparative analysis cities, which increasingly includes specific quantitative elements. In this paper, we make further step forward towards definition general method classification form. We draw from morphometrics and taxonomy in life sciences to propose such method, name ‘urban morphometrics’. then test it on unit landscape named ‘Sanctuary Area’ (SA), explored 45 cities whose origins span four historic time periods:...

The sheer complexity and unpredictability characterising cities challenges the adequacy of existing disciplinary knowledge tools in urban design highlights necessity to incorporate explicitly element change dimension time understanding of, intervention on, form cities. To this regard concept resilience is a powerful lens through which understand engage with changing world. However, currently only superficially addressed by designers, an explicit effort relate elements principles still...

Cities are complex products of human culture, characterised by a startling diversity visible traits. Their form is constantly evolving, reflecting changing needs and local contingencies, manifested in space many urban patterns. Urban morphology laid the foundation for understanding such patterns, largely relying on qualitative research methods to extract distinct spatial identities areas. However, manual, labour-intensive subjective nature approaches represents an impediment development...

This paper presents a morphological study of 100 main street networks from urban areas around the world. An expansion in scale was revealed using unique heuristic visual method for identifying and measuring lengths segments each areas. Case studies were selected grouped according to corresponding design paradigms, ranging antiquity present day. research shows that average historic (i.e. ancient, medieval, renaissance, baroque industrial) informal case are much smaller relative those more...

Research in Urban Morphology has long been exploring the form of cities and their changes over time, especially by establishing links with parallel dynamics these cities’ social, economic political environments. The capacity an adaptable resilient urban to provide a fertile environment for prosperity social cohesion is at forefront discussion. Gentrification emerged past few decades as important topic research sociology, geography economy, addressing impact some forms evolution. To extent,...

Over the last 200 years, particularly since Second World War, comprehensive spatial masterplans, aimed at increasing efficiency, amenity and value of degraded urban neighbourhoods, have been developed widely in UK. However, contrary to assumption their creators that stable long-term outcomes could be planned achieved, resulting environments often failed demonstrate resilience necessary deal with multi-scale changes cities face throughout existence, worsening problems they set out solve....

Purpose In urban studies, understanding how individuals perceive density is a complex challenge due to the subjective nature of this perception, which influenced by sociocultural, personal and environmental factors. This study addresses these complexities proposing systematic framework for comprehending people within contexts. Design/methodology/approach The methodology developing involved review existing literature on perception related concepts, followed integrating insights from empirical...

Urban spaces are an experience for all the senses, but too often, academics and designers interested in only visual or aural aspects of place. What implications a more holistic approach to role senses our urban space? This paper investigates ways assessing multi-sensory quality spaces. One important task is find recording sensory experience, as individualistic variable it can be. The describes notational system depicting relative importance, corroboration, qualities, six perceptual systems...

The urban environment is clearly an experience for all the senses. This multi-modality rarely accounted in inscriptions of cities. Even architects with a rich approach to senses continue use traditional mapping and drawing techniques which are grounded visual. In developing our attitude towards designing sensory multimodality, we have identified approaches notation space movement from likes Kevin Lynch, Rudolf Laban Christopher Alexander. response measured against forms orthogonal...

This paper analyses the historical process of transformation urban blocks, plots and building fabrics in Suzhou, China from tenth century to present day using a typomorphological approach, offers some design suggestions for designers policy-makers based on examination local context. The study aims propose western typormorphological concept Chinese design, maintain cultural identity an era rapid globalisation. reveals that typormorphology is effective tool solve current problems developments,...

The 'Community Design Studio' was a programme of collaboration between two courses, one in architecture and the other environmental psychology. It aimed to generate creative dialogue identifying responsible professionally informed plans for renewal an inner city area Glasgow (Govanhill) which community participation essentialingredient. took form students, as designers psychology students consultants, communicating electronically Guildford (University Surrey) Strathclyde) then meeting...

"Cognitive architecture. Designing for how we respond to the built environment." Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 10(3), pp. 383–384