Teaching Urban Morphology

Vítor Oliveira is Professor of Urban Morphology and Urban Planning at ULP and Senior Researcher at the Research Centre for Territory Transports and Environment (CITTA / FEUP). He is an architect (FAUP), has a MSc in Planning and Design of the Built Environment (FAUP/FEUP), and a PhD in Planning / Civil Engineering (FEUP). He is THE PRESIDENT of the Portuguese-language Network of Urban Morphology (PNUM) and A MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL of the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF). He is editor of the Revista de Morfologia Urbana, a member of the editorial board of Urban Morphology and an advisory editor of The Urban Book Series (Springer).

• Foreword.- Introduction: what is urban morphology.- The importance of urban morphology as an object of study.- Learning from urban form: the link between research and practice.- Urban design as urban morphology.- Inserting urbanity in a modern environment.- For a type-morphological approach to the study of urban form: the theory and method of reading.- Applying urban morphology in the teaching of urban design studios.