Family, society and the ornamental villa on the fringes of English country towns

Slater, Terry R.

doi:10.1016/0305-7488(78)90184-6

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“…The importance of ‘time’ and of built heritage has been part of academic debate since the seminal works of Viollet-le-Duc and Camillo Sitte. Within urban morphology, interest in the different periods of construction of buildings has been associated with the typological process approach (Caniggia and Maffei, 1979; Muratori, 1959) and the historico-geographical approach (Conzen, 1981; Slater, 1978).…”

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Morpho: Combining morphological measures

Oliveira

Medeiros

2016

Environ Plann B Plann Des

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The physical form of cities has an influence on the main social, economic and environmental aspects of our lives. The understanding of this influence depends on the availability of effective and specific morphological approaches to deal with the main elements of urban form. Despite the emergence of different approaches, it can be argued that most of them are developed in isolation, meaning that 'we are not learning from each other', and that some approaches focus not on the physical and tangible elements of urban form, but on abstract characteristics of the city. Against this background, the Morpho methodology was recently proposed to assess the physical form of urban areas. Morpho is framed by a concept of 'urbanity', combining seven measures to capture how streets, plots and buildings are arranged in different ways in order to shape different types of the built environment. Reported previously at the street scale, this paper extends the application of Morpho to the city scale. In addition, based on a systematic application in different case studies, the paper offers a reflection on the contribution of this methodology to a better understanding of the physical form of cities.

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Morpho: Combining morphological measures

Oliveira

Medeiros

2016

Environ Plann B Plann Des

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“…Focusing on industrial-era cities, the studies of the second research line explore how and why landowners including the church and aristocratic families affect urban landscape (Lilley 1994, Slater 1978; landownership patterns affect the conversion of agricultural land to urban use (Hooper 1985); suburban developments vary in form and character over space and time (Beresford 1988, Cannadine 1982, Trowell 1985; and why and how economic, political and social history affect urban landscape (Rodger 2001, Youngson 1966. Several studies along this line of research also explore the complex decision-making processes involved in various developments (Freeman 1990, Whitehand andWhitehand 1984); and the role of specific types of agent in the development process (Larkham 1995(Larkham , 1988.…”

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The Routledge Handbook on Historic Urban Landscapes in the Asia-Pacific

Silva¹

2019

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The "town plan analysis" is a morphological approach, first developed by M. R. G. Conzen, for geographical studies involving urban landscape. In his seminal work on Alnwick (Conzen 1960), Conzen defined town plan (also ground plan or urban layout), land uses, and building fabric as the three basic elements of urban landscape, and discussed their relative importance for urban morphological studies. He argued that urban morphological change is a complicated process due to differential rates at which town plan, buildings, and land use alter their character in keeping with ever-changing functional needs of society. In general, land and building use is subject to relatively rapid changes, while actual building structures are less so (though functional modifications will be frequent) and the urban layout, as defined by streets, open spaces and plots, proves usually to be the most resistant to change. Therefore, he considered the confinement of later developments within preexisting morphological conditions, primarily defined by urban layouts, as one of the fundamental laws in urban landscape studies.

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“…A strong tendency for fringe-belt research to be focused on European, especially British, towns and cities (see, for example, Barke, 1974; Conzen, 2009: 36; Slater, 1978; Whitehand, 1967) has been followed, mainly over the last few years, by wider geographical coverage (Conzen, 2007; Gu, 2010; Kukina, 2006; Ünlü, 2013). One of the major parts of the world in which fringe belts have only recently begun to be investigated is Eastern Asia (Whitehand et al., 2011).…”

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Urban fringe belts: evidence from China

Whitehand

2016

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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Research on the fringe-belt concept has grown significantly in the past decade. This is particularly evident in parts of the world in which interest in urban morphology has been slight until recently. The main emphasis continues to be the light that this concept can shed on the historicogeographical grain of urban areas. This paper reports a morphogenetic investigation into fringe belts that gives particular attention to the fixation lines associated with Chinese city walls. Discussion is concentrated on a fringe belt related to one of the world's longest and most massive city walls, that of Nanjing. The formation, consolidation and, in places, alienation of the Ming fringe belt of Nanjing has been influenced by natural and artificial fixation lines and the political economy of an authoritarian society. Understanding the changing spatial structure of fringe-belt landscapes has implications for the management of urban form in ways sensitive to its historico-geographical development.

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Family, society and the ornamental villa on the fringes of English country towns

Cited by 20 publications

References 23 publications

Morpho: Combining morphological measures

Morpho: Combining morphological measures

The Routledge Handbook on Historic Urban Landscapes in the Asia-Pacific

Urban fringe belts: evidence from China

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