Urban morphology and the problem of the modern urban fabric: some questions for research

Urban Morphology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 79-85

  Levy, Albert ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

infrastructure; peripherization; urban fabric; urban morphology; urban quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007698495     PISSN: 10274278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.51347/jum.v3i2.3885     Document Type: Article

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1. The study of the urban fabric is not the only approach to understanding urban form. Other approaches have been developed. One of these considers the form of urban layouts. See Lavedan, P. (1926, 1941, 1952) Histoire de l'urbanisme vols 1-3 (Henri Laurens, Paris)
2. Lavedan, P. (1936) Géographie des villes (Gallimard, Paris)
3. Unwin, R. (1909) Town planning in practice (Fisher Unwin, London)
4. Danger, R. (1933) Cours d'urbanisme (Eyrolles, Paris).
5. For a general presentation of Caniggia's concepts see Malfroy, S. and Caniggia, G. (1986) L'approche morphologique de la ville et du territorie (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich).
6. Conzen, M.R.G. (1960) Alnwick, Northumberland: a study in town-plan analysis Institute of British Geographers Publication 27 (George Philip, London).
7. For example, Rouleau B. (1985) Villages et faubourgs de l'ancien Paris. Histoire d'un espace urbain (Seuil, Paris)
8. Boudon, F., Chastel, A., Couzy, A. and Hamon, F. (1977) Système de l'architecture urbaine: le quartier des Halles à Paris (Centre National de Recherche Scientific, Paris).
9. For example, Rouleau, B. (1983) Le tracé des rues de Paris (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris); Anderson, S. (ed.) (1978) On streets (MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.).
10. On this issue see, for example, the opposing positions of Aymonino, C. (1977) Lo studio dei fenomeni urbani (Officina, Roma)
11. Rossi, A. (1982) Architecture of the city (MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass)
12. Caniggia, G. (1968) 'Tipizzazione', 'Tipo', in Portoghesi, P. (ed.) Dizionario Enciclopedico di Architettura e di Urbanistica (Unione Typografica Romana, Roma), 207
13. republished in Caniggia, G. (1976) Strutture dello spazio antropico (Alinea, Firenze).
14. I explained my own position on this problem in Levy, A. (1997) The typo-morphological approach of G. Caniggia and his school of thought', Urban Morphology 1, 52-6.
15. See, for example, Sitte, C. (1889) Der Städtebau (Wien), translated into English (1945) The art of building cities (Reinhold, New York)
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19. Castex, J., Celeste, P. and Panerai, Ph. (1980) Lecture d'une ville: Versailles (Moniteur, Paris)
20. Conzen, M.R.G. (1960) op. cit. have used this typology in their analysis.
21. See, for example, the study of the concept of 'regularity' undertaken by Maïzia, M. (1997) 'Towards a quantitative morphology: a new method of morphological investigation', unpublished paper presented to the Fourth International Seminar on Urban Form, Birmingham, July
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26. Many studies have been undertaken on this issue: for example, Lavedan, P. (1936) op. cit.; Caniggia, G. (1976) op. cit.; Rouleau, B. (1985) op. cit.; Rossi, A. (1981) op. cit.; Pinon, P., Boniface, P. and Gullon, P. (1986) Lotissements spéculatifs et formes urbaines: le quartier de la Chaussée d'Antin à la fin de l'Ancien Régime (Bureau de la Recherche Architecturale, Ecole d'architecture de Paris - La Défense, Paris)
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28. Castex, J. et al. (1980) op. cit. show this very well in Versailles. See also Aymonino, C, Lovero, P. and Rossi, A. (1970) La citta di Padova. Saggio di analisi urbana (Officina, Roma).
29. See the pioneering book of Gottmann, J. (1961) Megalopolis: the urbanized northeastern seaboard of the United States (Twentieth Century Fund, New York).
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37. See Levy, A. (1999) 'Infrastructure viaire et forme urbaine: génèse et developpement d'un concept'. Espaces et Sociétès (L'Harmattan, Paris) forthcoming.
38. On mobility and its impact, see, for example, (1966) New movement in cities (Studio Vista, London)
39. (1976) Moving in cities (Studio Vista, London)
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