Sixteenth International Seminar on Urban Form, Guangzhou, China, 4 -7 September 2009

摘要

The ISUF 2009 conference was held on the campus of South China University of Technology (Figure 1). Co-hosted by Guangzhou Urban Planning Bureau, the conference took the theme of 'Urban morphology and urban transformation'.rnGuangzhou was an exciting location for such a conference. It lies in the intense settlement concentration of the Pearl River Delta, which has a population of 55 million. Here the recent scale of development and urban change represents serious transformation. The adjacent city of Shenzhen has grown from a village street to a city of 14 million inhabitants in less than 20 years. In its transformation, China has of course attracted world attention. This is clearly reflected in the quantity of recent research focussed on China not just within urban morphology but as described in the journals of cognate disciplines such as planning, urban design and architecture.