Table of contents

Editorial comment

G. Fehl Versailles as an urban model: new court-towns in Germany ca.1700

A.S. Kubat The morphological history of Istanbul

Viewpoints

P.G. Gerosa The philosophical foundations of urban morphology

K.S. Kropf Wandering around the foundation: on Cassirer, signs, Peirce and chance

G.Cataldi,G. G.L. Maffei, and P Vaccaro Paolo Maretto's contribution to the Muratorian school

P.J. Larkham Organicism, evolution and urban form, on the problem of borrowing from other disciplines

K.C. Lee How we view cities

Reports

A.V. Moudon A letter from the President of ISUF to M.R.G. Conzen

T.Scrase Cities in Europe – places and institutions

N.Marzot Towards isuf 1999: Sixth Annual Conference of CISPUT

Fifth International DOCOMOMO Conference

Book reviews

B.Marchand J.R. Gold (1997) The experience of modernism

N.Marzot P.G. Gerosa (1992) Un Microterritorio alpino

F.Gaja i Díaz R. López de Lucio and A.Hernández-Aja (1996) Los nuevos ensanches de Madrid

M.P.Conzen P.Groth and T.W. Bressi (eds)(1997) Understanding ordinary landscapes

A.McQuillan W. Nolan and A.Simms (eds)(1998) Irish towns: a guide to sources

Notes and Notices

ISUF 1997: Asian Cities

ISUF 1999

isuf business meetings

Centre-Periphery-Globalization

Elections to the Council of ISUF

From city to urban civilisation

Editorial team of Urban Morphology

MA in Urban Morphology

Epilogue