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Saverio Muratori: towards a morphological school of urban design

Muratori’s series of urban projects demonstrate both his growing appreciation of the city and his developing perception of its formative logic. Growth and maturation are evident in his work, arguably culminating in his Venetian projects for the Barene di San Giuliano in 1959. A kind of cultural progression is evident in which an awareness of the significance of crises in the way in which ideas and phenomena dev...

Componentes fundamentais da morfologia urbana e os potenciais propositivos

Morfologia urbana: reflexão e prática urbanística

The Italian morphological concept of rendimento: a parameter for the city’s goo...

How to bring the concept of ‘rendimento’ (yield) to the Portuguese language relating it to the urban scale? Originally developed by Gianfranco Caniggia and his followers of the Italian school of design typology, this concept expresses an idea of efficiency, use and adaptation. It was applied in the interpretation of built structures and territories, but yet not in the analysis and planning of new urban layouts....

Design strategy and urban configuration: morphological study of two new towns i...

Cianorte and Angélica are two new towns planned in Brazilian hinterlands’ pioneering agricultural colonization zone. Both designed in the early 1950s, each one is linked to a specific town planning tradition: Cianorte late resonated the notion of the city as a work of art, alongside with some features of the garden city; Angélica early exemplified in Brazil the rationalist urbanism for a functional city. By con...

Classical ideas, progressive aspirations: academicism and the layout of new tow...

Articulating town planning history and morphological studies, the paper aims to show the effect of contemporary urbanism in the layout of four Brazilian mid-twentieth century new towns planned from scratch by civil engineers graduated by the Faculty of Engineering, in Curitiba. At that moment urbanism underpinned by an academicist approach, resultant from the Beaux-Arts tradition, and consonant with the plannin...