The Handbook of Urban Morphology

摘要

This book is for serious urban designers: The Handbook of Urban Morphology is a detailed companion for the analysis of urban grain and character, one that illustrates the gold standard for analysis. It draws on Karl Kropf's extensive experience in urban analysis and characterisation and is the richer for it. Kropf expertly illustrates how such analysis can provide a more objective understanding of places, and therefore a more robust basis for intervention. He wants us to 'slow down the normative impulse' and give time to proper analysis, to suspend our judgements long enough to understand what is really going on in places.