Conference Program

(Updated August 17th, 2010)

 

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Thursday August 19th, 2010

 

17.00-17.30: ISUF Editorial Board Meeting (Board Members only)  

Literaturhaus: Gartenzimmer

 

17.30-19.00: ISUF Council Meeting (Council Members only)

Literaturhaus: Gartenzimmer

 

19.00-21.00: Get-together of Boards and Council

Literaturhaus: Großes Alsterzimmer

 

Address:

Literaturhaus Hamburg, Schwanenwik 38, 22087 Hamburg

Phone: +4940-22 70 20 11

 

 

 

Friday August 20th, 2010

 

Conference Venue:

University of Hamburg, Geomatikum, Bundesstraße 55, 20146 Hamburg

 

08.30 Opening of the Reception

 

 

09.45 Opening Session, Room H1:

17th International Conference on Urban Form in Hamburg

 

Welcome address:

 

Vice President Prof. Dr. Holger Fischer, University of Hamburg

 

10.00 Introduction to the Conference

 

President of ISUF: Prof. Dr. Michael Conzen, University of Chicago

 

10.15-10.30  Break

 


10.30-12.00 Plenary Session:

 

Key-Speaker:

Prof. Dr. Eckart Ehlers, Department of Political and Cultural Change of the University Bonn

"Urban Forms: City Models in Theory and Practice - A Cross-cultural Perspective"

 

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Lafrenz, Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg

The Model of Meinhard von Gerkan of the “Ideal City” of the 21st Century

 

 

12.00 Lunch

(Rodizio Gaucho at “Haus des Sports“, Schäferkampsallee 1, 20357 Hamburg)

 

 

13.30-18.00 Excursions: Hamburg: Inner City and Waterfront

 

Leaders:

·          Harald Brandes

·          Bernd Hartmann

·          Robert Martens

·          Hans-Peter Patten

 

 

19.30-22.15 Icebreaker

 

Icebreaker aboard D.E.S Bergedorf:

Café Museumshafen, Pier Neumühlen/Övelgönne, Neumühlen 1, 22763 Hamburg

Phone: +49-40-297383


Saturday, August 21st, 2010

 

Session I:     8.30-10.00

 

Session I.1

Room H5

 

Historical Urban Morphology in European Countries

 

Chair: Simms, Anngret

 

Cataldi, Giancarlo; Gasperini, Massimo & Bartoli, Velia Gini

Lucca, a Sample of Territorial and Urban ‘Reading

 

Slater, Terry

Plot Patterns in European Medieval Towns: Cross-Cultural Comparisons in Time and Space

 

Marado, Catarina Almeida

Convents as Urban Elements: Morphological Analysis of Cities of Southern Portugal

 

Vieira de Almeida, Rogério Paulo

Cutting Walls: Morphological Issues in the “Sudden” Defensive Systems after 1640 in Portugal

 

 

Session I.2

Room 740

 

Urban Streets

 

Chair: Larkham, Peter

 

Ding, Wowo & Tong, Ziyu

Pattern Analysis of Urban Fabric: A Methods Approach on Study Street Spatial Type

 

Liu, Tao; Li, Muge; Wang, Guanyu & Ding, Wowo

Vectoring the Street Spatial Outline from Streetscape Images

 

Sepe, Marichela

Great Streets, Generic Streets: A Method to Combat Globalization by Enhancing Place Identity

 

 


Session I:     8.30-10.00

 

Session I.3

Room H4

 

Changing Face of Urban Space

 

Chair: Whitehand, Jeremy

 

Aras, Ebru

Historical Cities and Modernization: Urban Morphology and Identity

 

Gu, Kai; Whitehand, J. W. R. & Whitehand, Susan M.

Urban Landscape Characterization and Conservation: An Application in China

 

Tang, Lian & Ding, Wowo

Mapping Chinese Contemporary Urban Spaces with Measured-Billboards

 

Trisnawan, Dita

Townscape Cultural Conflict: Extensive Occupations of Advertising and Signage Boards

 

 

Session I.4

Room 838

 

Draft and Interpretation of Urban Maps

 

Chair: Banik-Schweitzer, Renate

 

Csepely-Knorr, Luca; Gergely, Antal & Oláh, András Béla

The Use of Archive City Development Plans in Contemporary Urban Planning

 

Batista e Silva, Filipe & Sá Marques, Teresa

The Study of Urban Growth through Multi-Temporal Cartography and Spatial Indicators: The Case of Porto Region, Portugal Medeiros

 

Armstrong Alana; Harkin Tim, Hutton John & Neis, Hajo

PUARL ATLAS: An Urban Study of Portland, Oregon’s South Downtown Blocks

 

Bailey, Rachel; Casselman, Kate; Hernandez, Herminio & Neis, Hajo

Portland Urban Block ATLAS: An Urban Study of Old Town/China Town in Portland, Oregon

 

 


Session I:     8.30-10.00

 

Session I.5

Room H6

 

European Cities during the Industrial Period

 

Chair: Curdes, Gerhard

 

Stanilov, Kiril

Tracing the Growth of a Metropolis: The Evolution of Development Patterns in Western London, 1875-2005

 

Pacione, Michael

The Genesis and Development of Scotland’s First Garden Suburb

 

Banik-Schweitzer, Renate

Vienna. Transformation of the Cityscape by Different Urban Typologies

 

Kukina, Irina М.

History and Morphology of the Segregating and Linking “Territories-In-Between”

 

 

10.00-10.30  Morning Tea and Coffee


Session II: 10.30-12.00

 

Session II.1

Room 838

 

Urban Squares

 

Chair: de Alvarenga Pereira Costa, Stael

 

Razavi, Mohammad Reza

Formal and Functional Typology of Squares in Urban Historical Textures of Iran

 

Mato-Fresán, Cristina

An Archeological Approach to the Study of Urban Form: The Case of Platerias Square in Santiago de Compostela

 

Antonucci, Denise

Santa Cecilia Square

 

Wang, Guanyu; Liu, Yang; Li, Muge & Ding, Wowo

Isovist-Based Mapping of Geometric Form of Traditional Urban Plaza

 

 

Session II.2

Room H6

 

Morphological Analysis of Urban Structures

 

Chair: Ding, Wowo

 

Liu, Quan; Xu, Nianfei & Ding, Wowo

Study on Mapping the Urban Morphological Characteristic

 

Haghani, Toofan & Larkham, Peter

Fractal Mapping: A new Tool for Analyzing Urban Morphological Complexity

 

Li, Muge; Wang, Guanyu; Liu, Tao

A Methodology to Predict Commercial-Use Intensity in Urban Design by Linking Transportation Hierarchy

 


Session II: 10.30-12.00

 

Session II.3

Room 740

 

Transformation of Asian Cities

 

Chair: Martens, Robert

 

Cil, Ela

Reading the Morphological History of Kula: A Preserved Ottoman Town in Aegean Anatolia

 

Kolnberger, Thomas

Behaviours of Settlement’: Patterns of Inertia and Change in the History of Cambodia

 

Heryanto, Bambang

A City in Transformation: The Changing Urban Form of Makassar

 

Hua, Xiaoning

Mutations of Contemporary Urban Forms in Yangtze River Delta

 

 

Session II.4

Room H4

 

Social Impact on Urban Morphology

 

Chair: Kukina, Irina

 

Paltrinieri, Daniela

Identification, Interpretation and Representation of Elements Characterizing the Housing Estate in the Suburban Areas Immediately Outside the City Borders of Parma: the So-Called North-West Area

 

Yegenoglu, Hüsnü

“Wohnen heißt Spuren hinterlassen” – “To Dwell is to Leave Behind Traces”. The Biography of an Amsterdam Apartment Block as a Microcosm of Architectural and Social Developmental History

 

Cardoso, Vasco Pinto

The Low-Income Townhouse Blocks in Oporto: The Morphological Origins of a Central and Unique Portuguese Social Housing Experience

 

Moreira Neto, Pedro Ribeiro & Guimarães, Antonio Carlos Machado

The Effects of Political Discussion on the Revitalization of Downtown São Paulo, Brazil

 


Session II: 10.30-12.00

 

Session II.5

Room H5

 

Town Planning and Urban Design in the 20th Century

 

Chair: Marzot, Nicola

 

Delledonne, Nicola & Stasi, Barbara

Urban Design and Town Planning Scheme: Roots of a Contrast in the Projects which were Awarded a Prize at the Competition for Milan’s Town Planning Scheme of 1927

 

Beese, Christine

Marcello Piacentini´s Reaction to Existing Urban Form: The Via Roma Nuova at Turin (1934-1938)

 

Trusiani, Elio

Urban Planning Models “For Export”: Structure, Form and Urban Space

 

Marat-Mendes, Teresa & Oliveira, Vitor

Foreign Urbanists in Portugal during the First Half of 20th Century: The Construction of a Portuguese Culture of Urban Morphology of Urban Open Space

 

 

12.00-13.30              Lunch

 


Session III: 13.30-15.00

 

Session III.1

Room H5

 

The Power of Maps: The European Historic Towns Atlas Project

 

Chair: Conzen, Michael

 

Simms, Annegret

The Power of Maps: The European Historic Towns Atlas Project.

 

Hennessy, Mark

The Power of Maps: the European Historic Towns-Atlas Project: The Historic Towns-Atlas as a Research Resource

 

Prunty, Jacinta

Conzen in Dublin: The Applicability of the Conzenian Conceptual Framework of Town Plan Analysis, Utilising the Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Dublin Parts 1 and 2

 

Tippach, Thomas

The Reinvention of the German Historic Towns Atlas

 

 

Session III.2

Room 740

 

Analysis of Urban Space

 

Chair: Hua, Xiaoning

 

Fioretti, Ilaria

The Representation of Urban Space: Relief and Representation Methods for Communicating Research

 

Hausleitner, Birgit

Urban Form and its Impact on Scopes of Action for People: Investigations on Urban Blocks in Paris

 

Hee, Limin; Boontharm, Davisi; Viray, Erwin & Ladouce, Nicolas

Urban Space Morphology for High Density Environments

 


Session III: 13.30-15.00

 

Session III.3

Room H4

 

Transformation of Urban Form

 

Chair: Vieira, Mariana

 

Li, Yingchun & Wang, Weijen

Urban Block Pattern in the Shanghai British Settlement, 1843-1943

 

Yang, Yuping & Jia, Beisi

A Comparative Study on the Spatial Patterns of Chinese Row Houses in Colonial Cities in the early 20th Century

 

Tai, Yuting

A Research on the Transformation of Urban Form and Mechanism Factors of Xiguan Area, Guangzhou

 

Silveira Junior; Antonio Carlos Porto & Jantzen, Sylvio Arnoldo Dick

Reference, Media and Design: Comprehending the Aesthetic of Proto-Modernist Architecture in Pelotas-Brazil

 

 

Session III.4

Room H6

 

Urban Identity

 

Chair: Yamaguchi, Keita

 

Motevalli, Masoud

The Aesthetics of Townscapes: Assessing the Beauty of Darabad District in Tehran Based on Serial Vision

 

Wischmann, Katharina

Urban Verticality – Landmarks as Symbols of Power and Producers of Identity

 

O’Connell, Derry

Controlling the Distant Backdrop to Urban Space

 

Boodoo, Anzir

Form and Feeling: How Urban Morphology Affects Pedestrians

 


Session III: 13.30-15.00

 

Session III.5

Room 838

 

Eco-Ecological Influence in Urban Development

 

Chair: Martens, Robert

 

Raynaud, Flaviana Dias Vieira & Costa, Lucia Maria Sá Antunes

Water Resources and Urban Form: The Hydrographic Sepetiba Bay Basin in Rio de Janeiro

 

Dell’Acqua, Adolfo C. & Ferrante, Annarita

Historic Preservation vs. Innovative Design: In Zero Energy Balance and Zero CO2 Emission Urban Retrofitting Process

 

Diniz, Nathália Maria Montenegro

The Cattle-Raising like Fundamental Economic Activity to Shaping the Territory of Seridó, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

 

Odeyale, Timothy; Sodagar, Behzad & Temple, Nick

Cultural Analysis of Impact of Food Production on the City Evolution in South West Nigeria

 

 

Session III.6

Room 531

 

New Researchers Forum I

 

Chair: McClure, Wendy

 

Pinto, Sandra M.G.

Visual Infringement: A Bottom-Up Design Process in the Urban Form of the Ancient Portuguese Cities

 

Murthy, Manas

Contemporary Interpretation of Traditional Urban Space – A Critical Analysis of Rob Krier as a Postmodern Phenomenon

 

Çalişkan, Olgu

Design Control for Planned Residential Districts: A Morphologically Comparative Inquiry in the Cases of the Netherlands, the U.K., and Turkey

 

Reyes-Rodríguez, Ramón

Pan American Games and Morphological Transformation and Identity: The Case of Villa Panamericana in Guadalajara, Mexico

 

 

15.00-15.30              Afternoon Tea and Coffee


Session IV: 15.30-17.00

 

Session IV.1

Room H4

 

Morphological Analysis of Urban Structures in Portugal

 

Chair: Marat-Mendes, Teresa

 

Oliveira, Vitor & Pinho, Paulo

The Study of Urban Form in CITTA: Approaches, Concepts and Methods

 

Dias Coelho, Carlos

A Morphological Inventory: Urban Fabric in the Portuguese City

 

Fernandes, Sérgio Miguel Padrão

Urban Layout, Shape and Sedimentation on Portuguese Cities

 

 

Session IV.2

Room 838

 

Modern Methods of Townscape Analysis

 

Chair: Larkham, Peter

 

Schmidt, J. Alexander & Neis, Hajo

Keeping a City's Identity: Urban Design Concepts with Aesthetic Principles? The Old Town of Stralsund as Example

 

Wang, Chong; Liu, Yang; Wang, Guanyu & Ding, Wowo

The GIS-Based Complex Site Planning Analysis Route Selection and Elevation Visualization

 

Liu, Yang; Wang, Chong; Liu, Tao & Ding, Wowo

Mapping Isovist-Based Urban Space Research Techniques: A Micro-Perspective. Approach to Understand Urban Form

 

Zechlinski, Ana Paula Polidori & Krafta, Romulo

Information Network of the City

 


Session IV: 15.30-17.00

 

Session IV.3

Room H5

 

Morphology and Renewal of Urban Areas

 

Chair: Pacione, Michael

 

Fisher-Gewirtzman, Dafna

Regenerating and Reusing Existing Buildings as a Key to Revive Urban Fabric: Focusing at an Obscure Part of the City of Haifa

 

Ravazzoli, Elisa

The Persistence of Built Form in a Dynamic Society: Atlantic Avenue, New York, as a Case Study

 

Mehta, Vikas

Re-Stitching the Urban Pattern of Ybor City: A Typo-Morphological Analysis

 

Winchell, Dick G.

European Urbanism and Urban Morphology: The Dynamics of Preservation and Change Building from the Past

 

 

Session IV.4

Room H6

 

Socio-Cultural Dimension of Urban Space

 

Chair: Davis, Howard

 

Guimarães, Antonio Carlos Machado; Neto, Pedro Ribeiro Moreira & Braga, Yara

The Displacement of Traditional Communities to Rural Villages in Northern Brazil: The Case of the “Qulombola” Population in the Municipality of Alcantara

 

Erdönmez, Ebru; Görgülü, Tülin & Ökem, Selim

The Effect of the Gypsy Architecture in Sulukule Settlement on Urban Morphological Character and Cultural Context

 

de Campos, Gabriela Coelho Borges & Holzer, Werther

Disperse Urbanization in “Região dos Lagos Fluminense”: Use and Occupation of Urbanistic Complexes

 

Medeiros, Ana Elisabete; Saboia, Luciana & Peixoto, Elaine

Brasilia´s Aporia: The Phenonem of Gated Communities

 


Session IV: 15.30-17.00

 

Session IV.5

Room 740

 

Functional Change of American Cities

 

Chair: Salden, Samantha

 

McClure, Wendy R.

Sustainable Town-making and Transformations: Profiles of Historic Mining Towns in the Rocky Mountains of the United States

 

Lustoza, Regina Esteves

The Morpho-Functional of the Mining Average Cities: The Case of Ponte Nova-MG

 

de Alvarenga Pereira Costa, Stael; Cardoso Maciel, Marieta; Correia Dias, Fabiana; de Araújo Perna, Stefânia & Mosqueira Possato, Flávia

The Action of Mining Activities on the Spoliation of the Landscape and Urban Forms of São Thomé das Letras / MG.

 

Villefort Teixeira, Maria Cristina; de Alvarenga Pereira Costa, Stael; Cardoso; Maciel, Marieta; de Castro Simão, Karina Machado & Salim Cerqueira Maria Clara

New Administrative Centres and their Recent Movement in Brazilian Towns

 

 

18:30         Boat Trip from St. Pauli Landungsbrücken on MS Viktoria to Schulauer Fährhaus, Wedel

 

19:30         Conference Dinner at Schulauer Fährhaus

 

22:15         Return to Landungsbrücken


Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

 

08.00 Excursion to Lübeck

(Meeting point: Moorweide, vis-à-vis Bahnhof Dammtor; Busse Firma Lampe)

 

 

Propaedeutic Session

(Townhall Lübeck, Bürgerschaftssaal, Breite Straße, Lübeck)

 

09.30 Slater, Peter

The Ideas of M.R.G.Conzen about Burgage and Burgage Cycle

 

09.45 Lafrenz, Jürgen

The Implementation of the Main Ideas of M.R.G. Conzen on the Urban Morphology of the Altstadt of Lübeck

 

10.00 N.N.

The Main Ideas of Saverio Muratori and Gianfranco Caniggia on the Morphology of Towns

 

10.15 Martens, Robert

The Implementation of the Ideas of Muratori and Caniggia on Urban Morphology of the Altstadt of Lübeck

 

10.30 Neis, Hajo

The Morphological Criteria of Building Regulations of the Altstadt of Lübeck

 

10.45 Lafrenz. Jürgen

The Evaluation of Pre-industrial Townscape in the Altstadt of Lübeck since the Industrial Era

 

 

11.15 Excursions in Lübeck (at about 13.15 time for individual lunch)

 

 

18.15 Return to Hamburg


Monday, August 23rd, 2010

 

Session V: 08.30-10.00

 

Session V.1

Room H4

 

The Development of Urban Quarters

 

Chair: Lafrenz, Jürgen

 

Geissler, Helenne Jungblut & Loch, Carlos

German Town Models in Subtropics and the Increase of Disasters

 

Topete Pozas, Carlos

Urban and Architectonic Transformations in Mexico City: The Case of the Alamos Colony in the 20th Century

 

Miranda, Rosana Helena

A Proposal of Methodology to Renewal an Old Worker Neighbourhood in Inner City of São Paulo, the Mooca District

 

 

Session V.2

Room H6

 

Urban Design

 

Chair: Maffei, Gian Luigi

 

Guatelli, Igor

Indelible Traces - The Work of almost Absent Presences

 

Jantzen, Arnoldo Sylvio Dick; Costa de Oliveira, M.S. Ana Lúcia; Silveira Junior, Antonio Carlos Porto & Borges Almeida, Lílian

Architectural Patrimony in Urban Areas: Methodology and Case Studies of the South of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

 

Marzot, Nicola

The Relation between Building Typology and Urban Morphology Aldo Rossi and Gianfranco Caniggia “deconstructed”

 

Canuto da Silva, Robson & do Eirado Amorim, Luiz Manuel

Parametric Urbanism: Parametric Urban Design as Strategy of Redevelopment of Urban Areas

 


Session V: 08.30-10.00

 

Session V.3

Room 740

 

Open Space

 

Chair: Fisher-Gewirtzman, Dafna

 

Thomas, Siegmar

Urban Land Form and Morphology of Open Space

 

Kirjakka, Marjut

Urban Open Spaces in Historic Finnish Cities

 

Sankalia, Tanu

The Geometry of Absence: Micro-Spatial Pattern of Interstitial Space in San Francisco

 

Ribeiro, Elaine; Saboia, Luciana & Medeiros, Ana Elsiabete

Brasilia and Modernist Void: Narratives of Recognition of Urban Open Space

 

 

Session V.4

Room 838

 

Space, Place and Build Form

 

Chair: Slater, Terry

 

Salden, Samantha L.

The Building Block Approach: Typological Study and Design Methodologies as Explored in Bath and Frome, England

 

McCormack, Art

The Role of a Form-Led Approach in the Expansion of Irish Towns: Correlation between Urban Form as Plan-Based Order and as Townscape

 

Choi, Hee Sun (Sunny)

Place Identity in 21st Century Contemporary New Town Development in South Korea

 


Session V: 08.30-10.00

 

Session V.5

Room 531

 

New Researchers Forum II

 

Chair: Whitehand, Jeremy

 

Hallowell, George

Structural Inertia: A Model for Use in the Study of Urban Persistence

 

Fu, Shulan

From Landscape to Townscape

 

Kruschwitz, Claudia

Public Spaces of Universities Types of forms and their Urban Significances

 

 

10.00-10.30  Morning Tea and Coffee


Session VI: 10.30-12.00

 

Session VI.1

Room H6

 

Economic Determinants of Town Development

 

Chair: Pacione, Michael

 

Benko, Melinda

Glocal City – Contemporary European Urban Form

 

Rifaioğlu, Mert Nezih; Şahin Güchan, Neriman & Larkham, Peter J.

Influence of Land Ownership and Control on Urban Form in the Historic Urban Context of Antakya (Antioch)

 

Wang, Wen-Chieh (Jeffrey)

Using Land Value Map as an Alternative Approach to Analyze Urban Form: A preliminary Study

 

Hein, Carola

Port City Networks: Morphological Development and Networked Transformation

 

 

Session VI.2

Room H4

 

Urban Morphology and Climate Change

 

Chair: Ferrante, Annarita

 

Curdes, Gerhard

Urban Morphology and Climate Change - Which Structures could survive?

 

Langkamp, Thomas; Bechtel, Benjamin & Böhner, Jürgen

Alteration of Urban Climate by Urban Morphology Taking Wind and Temperature as Examples

 

Buttstädt, Mareike; Sachsen, Timo; Ketzler, Gunnar & Schneider, Christoph

Urban Temperature Distribution and Detection of Influencing Factors in Urban Structure

 

Daneke, Christian & Oßenbrügge, Jürgen

Computer Based Predictions of Urban Land Use Patterns: A Possibility to Test Mitigation and Adaptation Policies

 


Session VI: 10.30-12.00

 

Session VI.3

Room 838

 

Development of the Urban Landscape

 

Chair: de Alvarenga Pereira Costa, Stael

 

Yamaguchi, Keita & Zeballos, Carlos

The Formation of Otsu City, Japan, and its Impact in the Landscape of Lake Biwa

 

Neis, Hajo

Centers and Corridors: Tigard Downtown and Hwy 99W Corridor – Pacific Highway to a Sustainable Future

 

Hopkins, Steven M.

Differing Development at Transit and Highway Ring Junctions

 

 

Session VI.4

Room 740

 

Urban Commercial Spaces

 

Chair: Winchell, Dick

 

Vieira, Mariana Dias

Urban Commercial Spaces: A Reflection on Form, Ownership, and Function

 

Rantanen, Annuska

Evolution of the Shopping Mall Type: Modifications in the Finnish Context

 

Davis, Howard; Holt, Marc; Reid, Maurice & Rowell, John

The Re-Emergence of Local Shopping Districts in Portland, Oregon

 

Shouri, Amir; Datta, Sambit & Tabe, Fereshteh

Ecological-Architectural Concerns in Urban Planning: Energy Consumption Analysis in a Classic and a Modern Shopping Center

 

 


Session VI: 10.30-12.00

 

Session VI.5

Room 531

 

New Researchers Forum III

 

Chair: Conzen, Michael

 

Greßhöner, Kristine

Building a Town Hall: Osnabrück, Hanover, and Bremen in the Middle Ages

 

Fox, Edward

Irwell River Park: The Rediscovery of Manchester’s Forgotten River

 

Ley, Karsten

Understanding Urban Forms as Results of a Conditioning System of Interrelated Factors – Some Thoughts on the Issue of Morphologically Defining the City

 

 

 

12.30       Final Plenary Session and Business Meeting

                Room H1

 

                Final Drink