Research at UDSU: all projects of research past and present summarized and briefly illustrated.
Fleischmann M, Feliciotti A, Romice O, Porta S (2020) Morphological tessellation as a way of partitioning space: Improving consistency in urban morphology at the plot scale. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 80: 101441. DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2019.101441. Urban Morphometrics (UMM) is an expanding area of urban studies that aims at representing and …
Fleischmann M (2019) momepy: Urban Morphology Measuring Toolkit. Journal of Open Source Software 4(43): 1807. DOI: 10.21105/joss.01807. Urban morphology is the area of urban studies that explores the physical form of cities in space and the way it changes in time in relation to the agents of such change (Kropf, …
Ref: Porta S, Romice O, Feliciotti A, et al. (2018) Big box, short life: little box, long life The Democracy of Resilience: Plot-Based Urbanism, Evolution and Informal Participation. Sergio Porta, Ombretta Romice, Alessandra Feliciotti and David Rudlin explore how greater planning clarity would permit more self-build and fundamentally better and …
Romice, O, Porta, S & Feliciotti, A 2017, ‘The road to masterplanning for change and the design of resilient places‘ Architectural Research in Finland, vol 1, no. 1, pp. 11-26. Knowing what to design is the foresight that tomorrow’s cities need more than anything. This paper presents the Urban Design …
Venerandi, A, Zanella, M, Romice, O, Dibble, J & Porta, S 2017, ‘Form and urban change: an urban morphometric study of five gentrified neighbourhoods in London‘ Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, vol 44, no. 6, pp. 1056-1076. DOI: 10.1177/0265813516658031 Research in Urban Morphology has long been exploring the …
Dibble, J, Prelorendjos, A, Romice, O, Zanella, M, Strano, E, Pagel, M & Porta, S 2017, ‘On the origin of spaces: morphometric foundations of urban form evolution‘ Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design. DOI: 10.1177/2399808317725075 The modern discipline of urban morphology gives us a ground for the comparative analysis …
Romice, O, Porta, S, Feliciotti, A & Barbour, GC 2017, Masterplanning for change: design as a way to create the conditions for time sensitive place-making. in H AlWaer & B Illsley (eds), Placemaking: Rethinking the Masterplanning Process.London, pp. 195-207 . DOI: 10.1680/prmp.60715.195 Recent figures on the speed at which urbanised …
Feliciotti, A, Romice, O & Porta, S 2017, ‘Urban regeneration, masterplans and resilience: the case of the Gorbals in Glasgow‘ Urban Morphology, vol 21, no. 1 Over the last 150 years, and particularly after WWII, comprehensive spatial masterplans, aimed at increasing efficiency, amenity, and value of degraded urban neighbourhoods, were …
Remali, AM & Porta, S 2017, ‘Correlating street network and urban blocks in the city centre of Tripoli‘ Urban Morphology (2017) 21(2) pp. 161-179. The study analyses the urban form of central Tripoli, Libya, comparing three cases of different morphological periods: Old Town (pre-modern), Italian Quarter (colonial) and Garden City …
Barbour, GC, Romice, O & Porta, S 2016, ‘Sustainable plot-based urban regeneration and traditional masterplanning practice in Glasgow‘ Open House International, vol 41, no. 4, pp. 15-22. Conventional approaches to housing development in regeneration areas are failing to provide effective supply on the many derelict and vacant sites currently available …
