Dergiler / ICONARP International Journal Of Architecture And Planning / 2019 / Cilt: 7 - Sayı: Özel Sayı

Introducing Supergrids, Superblocks, Areas, Networks, and Levels to Urban Morphological Analyses

Introducing Supergrids, Superblocks, Areas, Networks, and Levels to Urban Morphological Analyses

Anne Vernez MOUDON

Sayfa
1–14
DOI
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Abstract

Urban morphological analyses have identified the parcel (plot), thebuilding type, or the plan unit (tessuto in Italian) as the basic elementsof urban form. As cities have grown in geographic sizedisproportionately to their growth in population over the past sevendecades, new elements have been introduced that structure their form.This essay describes these new elements and proposes that they beformally recognized in urban morphology. It introduces a conceptualframework for a multilevel structure of urban space using areas andnetworks and including supergrids and superblocks to guidemorphological analyses.