2001 Volume 5.1
Editorial comment
Meeting of minds?
Articles
The study of urban form in the United States
M.P. Conzen {+}Abstract [Full paper, PDF]
ABSTRACT: This paper examines urban morphological research in the United States from a geographical perspective. Attention is given to the historiographical development of the field and the underlying cultural values of American society which make American forms distinctive, but the main emphasis is on the evolution of town planning ideas in practice and the systematic morphological structure and character of American cities. Some discussion is offered of the recent perceptual dimension in American urban morphology.
Inner-city destruction and survival: the case of Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati
B.C. Scheer and D. Ferdelman {+}Abstract [Full paper, PDF]
ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study is to determine how the original street and lot patterns of an inner-city area have affected the incidence of development, demolition and redevelopment. In particular, the correlation is examined between the pattern of streets, lots and building types on the one hand, and the survival of nineteenth-century buildings on the other. The focus of the study is the district called Over-the-Rhine, in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Conceptions of change in the built environment
K.S. Kropf {+}Abstract [Full paper, PDF]
ABSTRACT: This paper starts from the premise that urban morphology and process typology make use of a number of different, more or less explicit, quasi-evolutionary conceptions of change. The principal argument of the paper is that the evolutionary conceptions of change as used in these fields could be made more explicit, robust and broadly applicable if they were abstracted and broken free of specific historical periods and sequences. In particular the paper discusses the distinction between ontogenetic change and phylogenetic change. The further argument is made that, as a tautological (and heuristic) framework of ideas, a more abstract conception of change is analogous to ideas of evolution developed in other fields. The paper concludes by suggesting that urban morphology and process typology stand both to gain and suffer from the homologous relationship with evolutionary thinking in the life sciences.
Viewpoints
Diffusing Caniggian ideas G.L. Maffei and J.W.R. Whitehand
Planning plots in Grenade-sur-Garonne T.R. Slater
Exploring the links between urban morphology and urban ecology M.I.W. Hopkins
Reports
Fifth International Conference on Urban History K. Arntz
President's Report 2000 A.V. Moudon
Book reviews
L. Bascià, P. Carlotti and G.L. Maffei (2000) La casa romana G. Strappa
A. Petruccioli (ed.) (1999) Bukhara: the myth and the architecture M. Arefi
B. Landau, Cl. Monod and E. Lohr (eds) (2000) Les Grands Boulevards J. Castex
K. Easterling (1999) Organization space J. Tatom
Notes and notices
- Ville Recherche Diffusion
- Elections to the Council of ISUF
- Landscapes
- ISUF 2001
- On display
- Resource for Urban Design Information
- Tony Garnier Urban Museum, Lyon
- ISUF Constitution