Course Title

URBAN MORPHOLOGY

Course Number

10616365

Instructor Name

Zahraa Zawawi

Contact Information

[email protected]

Semester(s) and academic year(s)

Second Semester 2021
Second Semester 2020
Second Semester 2019

Compulsory / Elective

Compulsory

This course looks at the emergence of the nineteenth century urban design schools and the twentieth century urban design models within a framework of the evolution of urban design approaches and theories. It includes exploration of urban space from a structuralist perspective, with primary emphasis on the relationships between socio-economic, experiential and formal structures of the urban environment

TO :

- enable the students to think of every layer of the urban context

- understand how people interact, consume and creat values within cities

- urban morphology is important in studying cities

- urban morphology seeks to undestand the spatial structure and character of an urban area

- undestand the historical development of ciites

- to understand the spatial structure and character of an urban area by examining its patters and the process of its development.

- urban moprphology has been a disciplinary specilaiztion

- do urban analyisis by using morphological analysis

• Batty, Michael; Longley, Paul (1994). Fractal cities: a geometry of form and function. Academic press limited
• Carmona, Matthew and Tiesdell, Steve (eds.), Urban design reader, Architectural Press, 2007
• Jacob, Jane, The death and life of great American cities, Vintage books,1961
• Madanipour, Ali, Design of Urban space, an inquiry into socio-spatial process, John Willy and sons, 1996
• Moor, Malcolm; Rowland, Jon(2006) eds. Urban design futures. Chapter 1: territories of urban design (Alex Krieger), pp. 18-37
• Rowe, Colin; Koetter, Fred (1974). Collage city.
• Panerai, Philippe; Castex, Jean; Depaule, Jean Charles; Samules, Ivor. Urban forms: the death and life of the urban block. Introduction, pp. vi-xi