Table of contents

Editorial comment

E.Koster Urban Morphology and computers

G.Curdes Urban form and innovation: the case of Cologne

J.Vilagrasa Ibarz The study of urban form in Spain

Viewpoints

K.S.Kropf Facing up to evolution

S.Malfroy On the question of organicist metaphors

I.Samuels The history of urban morphology

J.Tatom Camillo Sitte and urban design in the twenty-first century

S.Asano ISUF and urban morphology: a japanese view

N.Marzot The role of history in Conzens and Caniggias approaches to urban morphology

Reports

A.V.Moudon Assessment and prospect: Presidents Report

General Meeting of ISUF

I.Samuels The historic town centre at the end of the twentieth century: a European perspective

M.Peters and R.Becht The contextual groundplan survey of medieval Zürich

K.S.Kropf The courtyard house in the urban fabric

M.D.Major Space syntax: first international symposium

J.Nasr ISUF 1997

S.Marshall and R.Mabbitt Setting new agendas for urban morphology ?

K.Arntz Urban morphology exposed

G.Cataldi Fifth Anual Conference of CISPUT

Book reviews

M.Darin M.Roncayolo (1996) Les grammaires dune ville (1996) Marseille

H.Meynen G.Curdes and M.Ulrich (1997) Die Entwicklung des Kölner Stadtraumes

K.S.Kropf B.Hillier (1996) Space is the machine

Notes and Notices

GIS and image processing in urban morphology

The city after Patrick Geddes

The twentieth century planning experience

Ville Recherche Diffusion

International Planning History Society

Cities in Europe

ISUF 1999