Séminaire sur les formes urbaines, 29/08-1/09

Seminar on Urban Form
              Ouro Preto, Brazil
              29 August – 1 September 2007

            

The International Seminar on Urban Form will be held in Ouro Preto Minas Gerais, Brazil, co-hosted by the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP) with the support of Jeremy W. R. Whitehand and Michael P. Conzen, from ISUF Council. It will bring together researchers and practitioners from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America, including many of the world’s leading urban morphologists.  Young researchers, including graduate students are particularly welcome.

            

As an organized field of knowledge urban morphology has a history going back a little over 100 years.  Its growth as an interdisciplinary field has been most notable since the early 1990s, associated with the formation of the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF), which has formally brought together architects, archaeologists, geographers, historians and planners.  ISUF organizes conferences, publishes a journal (Urban  Morphology) and provides an international framework for communication  between members.

            

The  present conference, the fourteenth in a series, has as its central theme Urban Morphology in a Global Era.  Within this theme there are five main  topics:

            

• Urban morphology as a field of  enquiry;
• Urban landscapes in conservation  areas;
• The evolution of non-Western  cities;
• New urban forms in the twenty-first  century;
• Traditional urban forms.

http://www.isuf2007.com