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20-23 August 2010 Hamburg, Germany
The Seventeenth International Seminar
on Urban form (ISUF 2010) will take place in the Geomatikum in Hamburg
between 20 and 23 August 2010. It will be organized by the Institut für
vergleichende Städtegeschichte (Institute of Comparative Urban History)
at the University of Münster, in conjunction with the Institut für
Geographie (Institute for Geography) of the University of Hamburg.
There will be an excursion to Lübeck on 24 August. The
conference will include a New Researchers’ Forum, in which researchers
new to the field of urban morphology are invited to take part.
Contributions by graduate students are particularly welcome. The general theme of the conference is ‘Formation and persistence of townscapes’. Special concerns of the conference are: * Urban morphological theory * Past and present models of town planning * Methods of analyzing and mapping the development of townscapes * The internal dialectic of form and function in urban development * The morphogenetic history of particular towns * Historical dimensions of the evolution of townscapes in different cultural contexts * Historic preservation, sympathetic architecture, and innovative design as strategies for the development of urban areas * The morphology of urban open space in history and planning * Defensible architecture and gated communities in the past and the present * Townscape problems in growing or shrinking towns * Perception and cognitive mapping of urban space * The design of digital cities Proposals
of papers should have the following format: name of author(s),
affiliation, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax
number, title of paper and an abstract of about 250 words in English.
They should be sent in PDF or DOC format to
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