Master Program in Urban Design

Urban
Morphology

FIRST,
LETS HAVE A LOOK THROUGH
Amsterdam City..

The
tree saw
man
Fisherman
Gable
stone
Map
&
Signs;
Haarlemmersl
Pansemertbrug
Raadhuisstraat
and
the
Westerkerk
Tourist
Rembrandt
plein
TouristOffice
Office at the Koffiehuis
Langestraa
Damrak
/
uis

The seven Amsterdam City Quarters

Former Amsterdam City

What is

Urban Morphology ?

Urban Morphology is the specific

such parameters as:

TEXTURE of a city informed by

1.Building form
1.1 ..,

2.Street pattern
2.1 .,

3.Population density
3.1 .., .

1.

Building Form

1.1

Built densities
1.2
Historical evolution of built fabric of the
city
[ 2nd world war before and after Fabric, How they recovered as a city
after the 2nd world war, Changes]

1.3
Amsterdam as A water City
1.4
Defense Line of Amsterdam

2.

Street Patterns
[ Are we pre dominantly, reading the Street
Patterns or Canal Patterns of the Amsterdam
City?????]
Or we reading the both in an integrate manner?
Advantage of the Street an canal systems for City

3.

Population
density

People born in
Amsterdam live
on the outskirts
of the capital.
- For 44 percent of
current residents,
Amsterdam was
also their place of
birth.
- One third of
residents of the
city centre
(Binnenstad) were
born in
Amsterdam.
- Born and bred
Amsterdam
residents are
mainly found on
the outskirts, in
municipal
quarters.

People born and living in Amsterdam by

Exodus from the

centre to the garden
villages.
- In neighbourhoods in
the city centre only
one quarter of
residents were born in
Amsterdam.
- The proportion is
even lower (one fifth)
in Burgwallen-Nieuwe
Zijde.
- Residents of these
neighbourhoods
were predominantly
born outside the
capital.
- The highest
proportions of
people born in
Amsterdam live in
the adjacent garden
villages .

People born elsewhere living in Amsterdam by

Relationship of Population
density of the city with
Political aspects and
Economical aspects.
1. Why highest proportion of people come to the city
center of Amsterdam?
2. Because of Tourism???? Or any other reason or
political Reason?

6.

What is the Image?

Metaphor of Amsterdam
Water city
or
Canal city
or
Port city
or
Fort city

5.

Compared different Urban

morphologies in Amsterdam
Ex: Traditional Built fabric Vs Modern Built Fabric
Or
Different Type of Built fabrics in Amstertam.

6.

Future Proposal on
Amsterdam City
Ex: Underwater City Proposal -

as a

labyrinth city
1. How they going to Develop the City under the
Canal system?
2. Then the Importance of the morphological study

7.

Morphological analysis
Study of the physical fabric of Urban form and the people and
processes that generate it.

[ Techniques, Block, Plot and Street net work]

Comparison