The broad theme for the symposium was 'Tradition and modernity in urban form'. The occasion was used to explore fruitful intersections between the interests, ideas, and expertise of members of ISUF and INTBAU. In addition to the academic sessions and panels, a special morphological excursion through a portion of near-central London was offered.
Conference Programme
THURSDAY 25 AUGUST
09.30-12.30 ISUF Council Meeting
11.00-12:30 ISUF 2005 Registration opens
12.30-13:30 ISUF 2005 Welcome luncheon
for speakers and delegates
13.30-13:45 Conference welcome and housekeeping rules
The Essence of Urban Morphology
Moderator: Michael Conzen
14.05-14.50 Giancarlo Cataldi, Gian Luigi Maffei, Nicola Marzot, Giuseppe Strappa, Paolo Vaccaro
A contribution of the Italian School of Processual Typology to the Disciplinary
Foundation of Urban Morphology
14.55-15.15 Terry R Slater
The Landscape of Medieval Towns: Some European Comparisons
15.20-15.40 Kai Gu and Jeremy W. R. Whitehand
Chinese Urban Form: A Conzenian Perspective
15.45-16.00 Questions to panel
New Urban Interventions in Traditional Cities
Moderator: Matthew Hardy
14.05-14.25 Vitor Manuel
Municipal plans morphological dimension
14.30-14.50 Wendy McClure
From Mining Town to Amenity Town: Using a morphological approach to guide development
in historic mountain towns of the Western United States
14.55-15.15 Susan Parham
The gastronomic quarter: design of market centred urban space
15.20-15.40 Tommaso Maria Massarelli
A project to the requalification of the bordering and surrounding areas
of the ancient town of Bitonto in Terra di Bari - Italy
15.45-16.00 Questions to panel
16.00-16.30 Afternoon tea break
Eduardo Camacho-Hubner, Frank Suurenbroek and Keith Lilley during session on Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in Morphlogical Analysis. Image: Anna Czywczynska
Traditional African Urbanism at Home & Abroad
16.35-16.55 Oluseyi Odeyale
Conservation of the Identities and Heritage of African Cities
Using Akure as a Case Study
17.00-17.20 Abiodun Olukayode Olotuah
Urban Housing and the Heritage of Earth Architecture in Nigeria
17.25-17.45 Michelle Farias Sommer
The influence of the ethnic settlements quilombos on
the actual form of contemporary Brazilian cities
17.50-18.00 Questions to panel
Architecture as Urban Morphology
Moderator: June Komisar
16.35-16.55 Bruce Michael Edgar
The Genesis of Sydney: A Utopian Dream in the Antipodes
17.00-17.20 Mario Gallarati
Architectural Squares Between Tradition and Modernity
17.25-17.45 Asu Tozan and Saziye Arslankelle
The Transformation of Urban Form during British Colonialism in Cyprus
17.50-18.00 Questions to panel
19.30-22.30 Conference Dinner at "Hoxton Furnace"
1 Rufus Street, London N1 6PE - 70m north of The Prince's Foundation
21.00-21.30 Keynote Paper: Karl Kropf - Crisis in the typological process and the language of innovation and tradition
FRIDAY 26 AUGUST
New Morphlogical Design Tools
Moderator: Matthew Hardy
09.15-09.35 Michael Mehaffy
Codes and the Genesis of Urban Form: Recent Developments
09.40-10.00 Xiaoling Dai
Investigations of the 'form and function' relationship in historical towns - Case study of Suzhou
10.05-10.25 Hideaki Shimura
Development of Machizukuri Design Games and Community Design Tools by Integrating Future Image
10.30-10:40 Questions to panel
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in Morphlogical Analysis
09.15-09.35 Eduardo Camacho-Hubner
How to archive numerical data from ordinance survey
for the purpose of morphological analysis
09.40-10.00 Frank Suurenbroek
New constructions or spatial inheritance? The process of
spatial transformation in the 19th century rural urban fringe: the case of Haarlem
10.05-10.25 Keith Lilley
Mapping and Analysing Medieval Urban Landscapes in GIS
10.30-10.40 Questions to panel
10.40-11.10 Morning coffee break
Studies of Historical Urban Morphology
Moderator: Michael Mehaffy
11.15-11.35 Maria Rosalia Guerreiro
Natural Identity, Urban Form and Ecological Design
11.40-12.00 Tahari Habib
From Algiers and Besides (Natural History of an Urban Morphology)
12.05-12.25 Gaurav Sarin
Life and Death of Indian Urbanism: Building Blocks for the Future
12.30-12.50 Mohamed Saidi
The Crusadersí town of Chastel Blanc (Safita) in Syria:
Reading of the Temple walled town
12.50-13.00 Questions to panel
Matthew Hardy, Ronnie Dissentshik, Lenka Schulzova and Jürgen Lafrenz in session on Conservation of Historic Urban Cores. Image: Anna Czywczynska
Urbanism and Ideologies of Modernism in the 1930s
Moderator: Susan Parham
11.15-11.35 Barbara Bartoli
Architecture of the Thirties in the Urban Structure of
a Byzantine City: Ravenna (Italy)
11.40-12.00 Alessandro Bazzoffia
ARBOREA in the private interventions of agrarian transformation and new PREDAPPIO as first foundation cities of the Thirties in Italy
12.05-12.25 Pier Giorgio Gerosa
Between theoretical modernity and practical tradition: Le Corbusier in Locarno
12.30-12.50 Jean-François Lejeune
Speed, Rural Poetics, and Constructed Metaphysics: Guidonia (1936-40),
Citta Aerofuturista
12.50-13.00 Questions to panel
Conservation of Historic Urban Cores
Moderator: Michael Mehaffy
14.05-14.25 Ronnie Dissentshik
Hneviim St. in Jerusalem: an environmental Dilemma
14.30-14:50 Jürgen Lafrenz
The alternatives of tradition and modernity for the redesign of urban cores - the comparision of Western and Eastern Germany
14.55-15.15 Lenka Schulzova
The Urban Transformation of the Town of Jihlava: Reconstruction of the Town Square of Jihlava
15.15-15.30 Questions to panel
Morphological Issues in Urban Conservation
14.05-14.25 Peter Larkham and Nick Morton
Change and continuity in the UK's traditional suburbs
14.30-14.50 Amund Sinding-Larsen - Lhasa in transit
14.55-15.15 Nahoum Cohen - Saving Cities through Urban Conservation
15.15-15.30 Questions to panel
15.30-16.00 Afternoon tea break
Mediterranean Urbanism of the Modernist Century
Moderator: Joe Nasr
16.05-16:25 Quenza Bougherira-Hadji
Untitled (Modernity in Traditional Milieu: Historic Algerian Urban Centres)
16.30-16.50 Adnan Husnein
Approaching Modernity: The Creation of Public Spaces in Tripoli,
Libya (1870-1940)
16.55-17.15 Rowaida Rashed
'Visual Order' versus 'Visual Disorder': Defining Visual Urban Disorder
Problems within the Fabrics of Different Districts in Cairo
17.20-17.40 Nevter Zafer and Sebnem Önal Hoskara
British Extension of a Traditional Ottoman Urban Form:
Morphology of the Town of Lefke, North Cyprus
17.40-17.50 Questions to panel
Modernist Designs for Urban Expansion
Moderator: Susan Parham
16.05-16.25 Minna Kriistina Chudoba
VIEWS, STREETS AND PLACES: Inside the city of Eliel Saarinen
16.30-16.50 Silvio Soares Macedo
The New Patterns of Brazilian Urban Morphology
16.55-17.15 StaÎl de Alvarenga Pereira Costa
Urban expansion in the Brazilian cities: an endless process
17.20-17.40 Renato Leão Rego and Karin Schwabe Meneguetti
The construction of the urban form: the design of new cities in Brazil
as part of an agriculture development business
17.40-17.50 Questions to panel
17.50-19.00 Closing reception
SATURDAY 27 AUGUST
Morphology of London Tours: Matthew Hardy
Introduction to the historical morphology of London - for beginners!
11.30-14.00 TOUR 1 - Matthew Hardy
Walking tour from The Prince's Foundation to the City of London.
About 3 miles/5km. Wear comfortable shoes and bring an umbrella.
London, 1870
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Matthew Hardy, Hideaka Shimura, Michael Mehaffy, Xiaoling Dai in session on New Morphlogical Design Tools. Image: Anna Czywczynska