2010 Volume 14.2
Editorial comment
The problem of separate worlds
Articles
The persistence of suburban centres in Greater London: combining Conzenian and space syntax approaches
S. Griffiths, C.E. Jones, L. Vaughan and M. Haklay {+}Abstract [Full paper, PDF, 23MB]
ABSTRACT: The relationship between settlement form and the historical
persistence of concentrations of diverse socio-economic activity in Greater
London’s suburban centres through successive phases of rapid urban
transformation is examined. Particular consideration is given to the
development of three suburbs in Greater London: Barnet, South Norwood and
Surbiton. Conzenian and space syntax approaches are combined within an
integrated GIS environment. Both these approaches identify the historical
grain of settlement forms as the key to understanding how socio-economic
activity becomes organized in the built environment. Using Surbiton as a case
study the analysis demonstrates firstly, how the configuration of Greater
London’s historical road network relates to the persistence of socio-economic
activity in the built environment over time, and secondly, how diverse, localized
patterns of such activity are accessible at a range of morphological scales. It
is concluded that the relationship between suburban built form and socioeconomic
activity is both configurational and historical in nature.
Planted towns and territorial organization: the morphology of a settlement process in Brazil
R.L. Rego and K.S. Meneguetti {+}Abstract [Full paper, PDF, 4MB]
ABSTRACT: The settlement forms that have developed in the northern region of
Paraná State in Brazil reflect to a major degree the systematic colonization of
that country. The British contribution to this process was responsible not only
for the planning ideas employed, but also for a comprehensive layout of roads,
a railway line, and small rural plots and planted towns. The uniformity of the
organization of the territory, the unity of its formative process, the interaction
between artefacts and nature, the ridge-settling system, and the regularities in
the town pattern underlie the character of the landscape. Urban morphology
provides a powerful means of interpreting this form of territorial occupation
and the dynamics of its recent development.
The study of urban form in Poland
M. Koter and M. Kulesza {+}Abstract [Full paper, PDF, 1MB]
ABSTRACT: Research on the historical geography of settlements in Poland has
its beginnings in studies by economic historians at the end of the nineteenth
century. During the inter-war period research on the geography of cities and
on their historical geography in particular was developing slowly. Among
works devoted to settlement geography, as many as nine out of ten were
concerned with rural settlements. After the Second World War urban studies
advanced considerably. Today the morphology of cities is a subject of interest
to a relatively small group of researchers in Poland, Wroclaw and Łódź being
the only significant research centres. Morphogenetic studies of urban centres
predominate. Metrological-historical studies have lost favour.
Review article: The ordinary dwellings of Paris in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
M. Darin [Full paper, PDF, 0.1MB]
Viewpoints
Understanding place? I. Samuels
Bridging the gap between urban morphology and urban modelling K. Stanilov
Typomorphology and public participation in China F. Chen
The development of an urban atlas of Portland H. Davis and H. Neis
[Viewpoints, PDF]
Reports
Annual Meeting of CISPUT, Artimino, Italy, 2009 G. Gallarati
Revisiting New towns of the Middle Ages K. Lilley
[Reports, PDF]
Book reviews
J. Czaplicka, N. Gelazis and B. Ruble (eds) (2009) Cities after the fall of Communism: reshaping cultural landscapes and European identity S.A. Hirt
A. Petruccioli (2007) After amnesia: learning from the Islamic Mediterranean urban fabric M. Maretto
A. Marson (2008) Architipi di territorio M. Botta
A. Almandoz (ed.) (2010) Planning Latin America’s capital cities 1850-1950 R.L. Rego
T. Hall (2010) Planning Europe’s capital cities: aspects of nineteenth-century urban development I. Morley
S. Wolfrum, W. Nerdinger and S. Schaubek (eds) (2008) Multiple city: urban concepts 1908/2008 H. Tieben
[Book reviews, PDF]
Book notes
[Book notes, PDF]
Notes and notices
- Framing the significance of historic urban landscapes
- ISUF 2011: Urban morphology and the post-carbon city
- Journal of Space Syntax
- Cutting into the substance of urban form
- Forthcoming articles in Urban Morphology