Formation and persistence of townscapes

[i]New Researchers’ Forum[/i] ISUF 2010 Conference, Hamburg, Germany 2010 The Seventeenth International Seminar on Urban Form, to be held in Hamburg, Germany, 20-23 August 2010, will include a New Researchers’ Forum, in which researchers new to the field of urban morphology are invited to take part. Contributions by graduate students are particularly welcome. Proposals of papers on one or more of the following topics are invited: • Urban morphological theory • Past and present models of town planning • Methods of analysing and mapping the development of townscapes • The internal dialectic of form and function in urban development • The morphogenetic history of particular towns • Historical dimensions of the evolution of townscapes in different cultural contexts • Historic preservation, sympathetic architecture, and innovative design as strategies for the development of urban areas • The morphology of urban open space in history and planning • Defensible architecture and gated communities in the past and the present • Townscape problems in growing or shrinking towns • Perception and cognitive mapping of urban space • The design of digital cities [b]Proposals of papers[/b] should have the following format: name of author(s), affiliation, full postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, title of paper (preceded by ‘New Researchers’ Forum’) and an abstract of about 250 words in English. [b]They should be sent in PDF or DOC format to[url=mailto:info@isuf2010.de]info@isuf2010.de[/url] before 31 January 2010.[/b] Visit the official site: http://www.urbanform.org/sem/sem2010.html