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Morphological Analysis
Urban Morphology

is the study of the form of human settlements and the process of their formation and transformation. The study
seeks to understand the spatial structure and character of a metropolitan area, city, town or village by examining
the patterns of its component parts and the process of its development.
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Morphological Analysis
Evolution of Town
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Morphological Analysis
Evolution of Town
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Morphological Analysis
Form and Pattern
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Morphological Analysis
Form and Pattern
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Morphological Analysis
Old Structures/Elements
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Morphological Analysis
Old Structures/Elements
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Morphological Analysis
Old Structures/Elements
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Visual Analysis
City Profile
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Visual Analysis
City Image

A public image of any given city is the overlap of many individual images. It refers to physical forms and are
classified into five types of elements: path, edges, districts, nodes and landmarks.

Old City of Sana’a

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Visual Analysis
Path

Channels by which people move along – roads, sidewalks, streets, rails…

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Visual Analysis
Edges

Dividing lines between two phases – railway lines, seashores, river…

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Visual Analysis
Districts

A medium to large sections of a city which are recognizable as having a common , identifying character.
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Visual Analysis
Landmarks

Point of reference, it makes one orient oneself – buildings, monument, signs…

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Visual Analysis
Nodes

Area of strategic spots where extra focus are given – popular city centre, busy intersections, parks, markets…
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Visual Analysis
Edges

Dividing lines between two phases – railway lines, seashores, river…

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Visual Analysis
City Form

“general pattern of building height and development intensity" and the "structural elements" that define the City
physically, such as natural features, transportation corridors (including the planned fixed rail transit system),
open space, public facilities, as well as activity centres and focal elements.
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Visual Analysis
City Form

The arrangement of a built up area. This arrangement is made up of many components including how close buildings
and uses are together; what uses are located where; and how much of the natural environment is a part of the built up
area.
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Visual Analysis
City Form

It relates to imageability: visible, coherent and clear. To heighten the imageability of the urban environment is to
facilitate its visual identification and structuring.
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Visual Analysis
City Form
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Visual Analysis
City Form
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Visual Analysis
Urban Structure

The overall framework of a region, town or precinct, showing relationships between zones of built forms, land forms,
natural environments, activities and open spaces. It encompasses broader systems including transport and
infrastructure networks
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Visual Analysis
Urban Structure

The urban design structure defines the urban form and the building form
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Visual Analysis
Movement Pattern
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Visual Analysis
Movement Pattern
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Visual Analysis
Movement Pattern
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Visual Analysis
Buildings

Buildings are the most pronounced elements of urban design – they shape and articulate space by forming the the
streetwalls of the city. Well designed buildings and groups of buildings work together to create a sense of place.
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Visual Analysis
Buildings’ uses
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Visual Analysis
Architectural features

Architecture ties structural elements and spaces together to achieve cohesion. Architectural features are the unique
details and component parts that, together, form the architectural style of houses, buildings and structures.
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Visual Analysis
Active building frontages

street frontages where there is an active visual engagement between those in the street and those on the ground floors of
buildings. This quality is assisted where the front facade of buildings, including the main entrance, faces and open
towards the street.
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Visual Analysis
Landuse characteristics
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Visual Analysis
Mental Mapping

The act of finding places using visualizations based on an individual's known sense of direction.
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Townscape Appraisal
Urban Fabric

The physical aspect of urbanism, emphasizing building

types, thoroughfares, open space, frontages, and
streetscapes but excluding environmental, functional,
economic and sociocultural aspects.
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Townscape Appraisal
Urban fabric

Urban fabric is the physical form of towns and cities. Like textiles, urban fabric comes in many different types and
weaves
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Townscape Appraisal
Urban fabric
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Townscape Appraisal
Serial Vision

To better convey movement through space, we can use a series of changing perspective views, as English architect and
urban designer Gordon Cullen did when he coined the phrase Serial Vision to describe what one might see and
experience as one walks through a sequence of spaces.
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Townscape Appraisal
Serial Vision