The prize, awarded by the International Seminar on Urban Form every two years, identifies the best recent PhD thesis in Urban Morphology. The evaluation of proposals is based on the work’s innovation, quality and rigour – three of the central characteristics of J. W. R. Whitehand’s own work in the study of urban form. Theses…
The International Seminar on Urban Form / ISUF offers two grants to support participation with paper presentation in its 2026 annual conference in Santiago de Chile. These grants are intended for researchers who are both originally from, and currently based in, Least Developed Countries / LDC. The United Nations list of LDCs is available at:…
After addressing the three-decade history of ISUF, the book analyses the present and future of this scientific society, of urban morphology, and of human settlements. This timely and fundamental reflection gathers contributions from present and past leadership of ISUF since its inception in 1994: A. Vernez Moudon, M. Barke, T. Unlu, M.P. Conzen, S. Whitehand,…
The prize, awarded by the International Seminar on Urban Form every two years, identifies the best recent PhD thesis in Urban Morphology. The evaluation of proposals is based on the work’s innovation, quality, and rigour – three of the central characteristics of J. W. R. Whitehand’s own work in the study of urban form. Theses…
ISUFitaly, International Seminar on Urban Form, Italian Network, organizes its sixth Conference in Bologna on 08-10 June 2022. The theme is Morphology and Urban Design. New strategies for a changing society. Maintaining a coherence with previous conferences, the sixth ISUF Italy meeting also focuses attention on the new issues with which urban morphology relates today in dialogue with…
See also recent Proceedings. ISUF 2021 Glasgow ISUF 2020 Salt Lake ISUF 2019 Cyprus ISUF 2018 Krasnoyarsk See also: KEY TEXTS ON THE HISTORY OF STUDYING URBAN MORPHOLOGY Akbar, J. A. (1988) Crisis in the built environment: the case of the Muslim city (Concept Media, Leiden). Bafna, S. (2003) ‘Space syntax: a brief introduction to its logic…
Report on ISUF Regional Networks 17 JUNE 2022 Giuseppe Strappa, Coordinator of Isuf Regional Networks In the time between our meeting in Salt Lake City and the one in Glasgow, the activities of the Isuf Regional networks have been greatly influenced by the conditions imposed by the pandemic both, in exchanges within individual networks and…
Nicosia, Cyprus Cities as Assemblages Proceedings of the conference are now available
Bibliography showing texts from 1928 to 2000 Consolidated Urban Morphology reading listcompiled by Peter J. Larkham, Birmingham City University, UK This bibliography focuses particularly – although not exclusively – on English-language literature and on the Conzenian tradition. This is solely because of the background and linguistic limitations of its compiler! However it does contain a…