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Journal - Urban Morphology

Urban Morphology is the Journal of the International Seminar on Urban Form. It is published biannually, in April and October.

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Recent journal articles

Tables of contents together with abstracts for previous articles can be found in 'Journal online'. Some examples of recent articles that have appeared in the journal are:
  • The urban structural unit: towards a descriptive framework to support urban analysis and planning
  • The form-making process and architectural type
  • Illuminating and elucidating urban form through the lens of History
  • Plot longevity and urban land tenure: a Norwegian case study
  • The study of urban form in Turkey
  • Palladio's children ... and Vitruvius's grandchildren?
  • A traditional English street village in America
  • The persistence of suburban centres in Greater London: combining Conzenian and space syntax approaches
  • The study of urban form in Poland.

 

Editorial Board

Editor: Jeremy Whitehand
Urban Morphology Research Group, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, England
e-mail: journal@urbanform.org
Associate Editors: Karl Kropf, Roger Evans Associates, Kidlington, England
Peter Larkham, Birmingham City University, England
Book Review Editor: Ian Morley
Department of History, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Fung King Building, Shatin NT, Hong Kong.
e-mail: ianmorley@arts.cuhk.edu.hk
Assistant Editor: Phil Jones
Urban Morphology Research Group, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, England
e-mail: p.i.jones@bham.ac.uk
Editorial Board: Takashi Ariga, Waseda University, Japan
Giancarlo Cataldi, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Michael Conzen, University of Chicago, U.S.A.
Michaël Darin, Ecole nationale supérieure d’architecture de Strasbourg, France
Howard Davis, University of Oregon, USA
Pier Giorgio Gerosa, Ecole d'Architecture de Strasbourg, France
Paul Hess, University of Toronto, Canada
Wendy McClure, University of Idaho, USA
Sylvain Malfroy, Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz, Switzerland
Vítor Oliveira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Yisan Ruan, Tongji University, China
Amund Sinding-Larsen, Statsbygg, Norway
Emily Talen, Arizona State University in Phoenix, USA

 

Submissions

Submitted papers must be original and not under consideration by any other journal. Articles (preferably not exceeding 5000 words, with an abstract in less than 200), 'viewpoints' (normally not exceeding 1000 words), conference reports, news and notices of forthcoming events intended for publication in Urban Morphology should be addressed to the Editor.

Notes for the guidance of contributors to Urban Morphology (PDF) should be referred to in preparing submissions. Authors are reminded that the readership is international and that articles are accepted for publication only after favourable review by at least two independent referees.

 

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