SDP420 Urban Morphology, an interdisciplinary approach to studies in urban planning and development

Urban Morphology is the study of the physical (or built) fabric of cities, and the people and processes shaping it. It is a theoretical framework for describing and explaining spatial structure in built up areas. Planning contexts may be assessed as form, and thus transformation; spatial structures and processes in which planners, architects and developers interact.

The course gives both a theoretical and practical insight in how urban morphology as an interdisciplinary approach can contribute to research in spatial development and planning in built up areas. The overall aim is to cope with the complexity of spatial structure of human settlements through the perspective of urban form and to present frameworks for mapping, describing and explaining spatial structure and transformation.