The Built Form of Western Cities: Essays for M.R.G. Conzen on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday

by T.R. Slater (Editor), James Bond (Contributor)

Contents:
Urban morphology in 1990 --
Starting again --
Role of town-plan analysis in the study of the medieval Irish town --
English medieval new towns with composite plans --
Central place and medieval new town --
Morphological evolution of a nineteenth-century city centre --
Town-plan analysis in an American setting --
Making and remaking of Pietermaritzburg --
Parallelism and disjunction --
Morphological development of Scottish cities from Georgian to modern times --
Municipal housing in Vienna between the wars --
Commercial building development --
Morphogenesis, fringe-belts and urban size --
Fringe-belt concept in a Spanish context. Historico-geographical perspective on urban fringe-belt phenomena --
Conservation and the management of historical townscapes --
Townscape management --
Preservation planning in post-colonial cities --
Architectural practice and urban morphology.

445 pages, Hardcover

First published April 19, 1990