Class Urban and Territorial Analysis

The UC should develop the following skills in the MSc students: i) the understanding of Urban Morphology as the study of the physical form of the city (of its streets, plots and buildings), as well as of the agents and processes of transformation (both of public and private promotion) that shape the urban form over the years (the importance of history is highlighted); ii) the understanding and appreciation of the diversity of urban forms in different temporal (different historical periods) and geographical (different continents) contexts; iii) the know-how on a set of theories, concepts, methods and techniques to deal with the physical form of cities; and finally iv) the understanding of the physical dimension as one of the different dimensions of the life of a city.

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i) The elements of urban form: urban tissue, natural context, streets, plots, buildings; ii) the agents and processes of urban transformation. iii) the history of urban form: the Greek city, the Roman city, the Medieval city, the Renaissance city, the Baroque city, the nineteenth century city, and the cities of the twentieth century; iv) contemporary urban forms; v) different approaches in urban morphology: the historico-geographical approach (Conzenian School), the process typological approach (Muratorian School), space syntax and spatial analysis (cellular automata, agent-based models, fractal analysis); vi) from scientific research to professional practice; viii) relations with other fields of knowledge.

Metodologias contidas no meu livro 'Urban morphology: an introduction to the study of the physical form of cities.'

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