J.W.R. Whitehand and the Historico-geographical Approach to Urban Morphology

Part of the The Urban Book Series Book Series

Editors: Oliveira, Vítor

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-00620-4

ISBN: 978-3-030-00619-8

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Sep 27, 2018

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An Introduction to the Work of JWR Whitehand

Oliveira, Vítor

Pages: 1 –32

[Over recent decades, the historico-geographical approach has been prominent in the debate on the physical form of cities and the agents and processes shaping that form over time. With origins in the work of German-speaking researchers—particularly MRG Conzen—this approach has been systematically...
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Urban Morphological Regions: Development of an Idea

Gu, Kai

Pages: 33 –46

[The question of how to articulate and represent the structure of the urban landscape has long been central to geographical urban morphology. Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, MRG Conzen made a major contribution to the development of morphological regionalisation—the process of...
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Fringe Belts

Barke, Michael

Pages: 47 –66

[This chapter is principally concerned with Jeremy Whitehand’s contribution to the study of urban fringe belts. However, this consideration will initially be set in a broader context relating to the general field of urban morphology as an object of study. This is because the development of urban...
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Agents and Agency in the Urban Landscape

Larkham, Peter J.

Pages: 67 –90

[Many significant transitions have been made in the study of urban form, with one of the most fundamental being the transition from considering rather impersonal mechanisms of urban change—for example historico-geographical and financial—to a more detailed and nuanced exploration of agents and...
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Rigour and Comparison in Urban Morphology: Through the Lens of JWR Whitehand

Kropf, Karl

Pages: 91 –113

[There are many reasons why we might want to deepen our understanding of urban environments, from the often quoted fact that over half the global population now lives in cities to the seemingly inexorable spread of common building types across the globe and the attendant loss of diversity. Or...
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Research and Practice

Samuels, Ivor

Pages: 115 –131

[With an extensive record of geographical research, Jeremy Whitehand’s career lies firmly at the cognitive end of the urban morphology spectrum set out by Gauthier and Gilliland (2006). Practice, in the sense of intervening in the built environment through the medium of projects or plans, whether...
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JWR Whitehand: 50 Years of Urban Morphological Research

Oliveira, Vítor

Pages: 133 –138

[This chapter brings together some of the main arguments presented in the previous chapters to support the thesis of the book: it was JWR Whitehand who effectively structured a new school of urban morphological thought grounded on the seminal work of MRG Conzen. Over half a century, Whitehand has...

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