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Conferences

ISUF 2012

The 19th International Seminar on Urban Form will take place in Delft, The Netherlands, 17-20 October 2012.

The conference will be co-hosted by the European Association for Architectural Education and the Delft School for Design. The general theme of the conference is New urban configurations. A conference website with further information will be published shortly.

PNUM 2012

The Portuguese Network of Urban Morphology is holding its Second Annual Conference on 5 and 6 July 2012, in Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE).

The conference theme is Urban morphology in Portuguese-speaking countries. Further information is available on the PNUM conference website.

 

Previous conferences

Montréal, Canada, 2011: Urban morphology and the post-carbon city

• Urban morphology, planning and design
• Urban form, sustainability and climatic change
• Heritage and urban form
• Advances in theory and methods
• Urban form, society and technology

- ISUF 2011 Conference report will be published shortly

- Conference web site - www.isuf2011.com

Hamburg, Germany, 2010: Formation and persistence of townscape

• Urban morphology and climatic change
• Urban form and heritage
• Urban morphological theory
• Ecology and urban form
• European historic towns’ atlas project
• Urban identity

- ISUF 2010 Conference report (PDF)

- Conference web site - www.isuf2010.de

Guangzhou, China, 2009: Urban morphology and urban transformation

• Reconceptualizing the Chinese city
• The balance between tradition and development
• The fringe-belt concept
• Models of urban development
• East and West: similarities and contrasts

- ISUF 2009 Conference report (PDF)

- Conference brochure / call for papers (PDF) and conference information (PDF).

Artimino, Italy, 2008: Landscape and urban form

• Theory and praxis
• The French urban landscape
• The internalizing of old urban fringes
• The concept of territory of the Muratorian school

- ISUF 2008 Conference report (PDF)

Ouro Preto, Brazil, 2007: Urban morphology in a global era

• Non-Western cities
• Urban morphology and computers
• Urban form and identity
• Architecture and urban design restoration
• Urban open spaces and landscape

- ISUF 2007 Conference report (PDF)

Stockholm, Sweden, 2006: Nordic and international urban morphology

• Practical use of urban morphological theories
• Regionalization of urban morphological research
• Communication of urban morphological knowledge

- ISUF 2006 Conference report (PDF)

London, UK, 2005: Tradition and modernity in urban form

• New urban interventions in traditional cities
• New morphological design tools
• Modern designs for urban expansion

Glasgow and Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2004: Urban morphology at the IGU

• Historical urban morphology
• Conzenian and Caniggian approaches

Trani, Italy, 2003: The planned city?

• Sprawl
• The informal versus the formal city
• Theory and methodology
• Disasters and reconstruction

Proceedings of the 2003 conference are available from Uniongrafica Corcelli Editrice, Via S. Milella 10, Bari, Italy. They consist of three volumes, each of about 400 pages, edited by Attilio Petruccioli, Michele Stella and Guiseppe Strappa. The cost is 100 euros and the publication's ISBN is 88-7329-043-4.

Cernobbio, Italy, 2002: The work of Gianfranco Caniggia

• Caniggia’s approach
• The planning of Como
• Caniggia and typological theory

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 2001: Retrospective on urban morphology at the millennium

• Urban morphological ‘schools’
• The historical scope of urban morphology
• Design and legislation
• GIS and urban morphology

Proceedings of the 2001 Conference have been reprinted and are available for $US 25.00.
Contact: Brenda Scheer, Graduate School of Architecture, University of Utah, 375S, 1530 E. Room 234, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA. E-mail: Scheer@arch.utah.edu

Groningen, The Netherlands, 2000: Commissions and Working Parties

• Groningen : applying conceptual frameworks
• Meetings of commissions and working parties

Florence, Italy, 1999

• Established theories in varied environments
• Explanation and prescription

Proceedings from the 1999 conference are available from:
Alinea editrice, 17/19 rosso, via Pierluigi da Palestrina, 50144 Firenze, Italy.

The volume is edited by Roberto Corona and Gian Luigi Maffei and is entitled Transformations of urban form: from interpretations to methodologies in practice, ISBN 88-8125-348-8. It comprises 111 papers divided by topic into 15 sections, each section being prefaced by a summary.

Versailles, France, 1998

• The legacy of Versailles
• The ‘modern’ city
• Revisionist views of design history
• Towards prescription

Birmingham, UK, 1997

• Methodology and technique
• Development of urban morphology as a field of knowledge
• Inauguration of the New Researchers’ Forum

Lausanne, Switzerland, 1996

• The Italian school of process typology
• The representation of urban tissue