In the original version of book, following belated corrections have beenincorporated: The author name “Amira Elnolaky” has been changed to Elnokaly” in Frontmatter, Backmatter and Chapter 1.The chapter book updated with change.

The growth and character of urban morphological studies in South Korea are described, giving particular attention to the formal aspects of cities and towns in Korea’s long history, and examining the research approaches and findings. The influence of European morphological perspectives is considered. An attempt is made to encapsulate the state-of-the-art in Korean urban form studies. Owing to pr...

Dalian, a typical modern colonial city, originated in the late 19th century and was planned built by Russian architects. Academics have traditionally focused on unique qualities of spatial form from early stages urban development, but due to lack history archives, formation planning ideology this time not been examined. For study, we visited State Historical Archives search for relevant materia...

BACKGROUND Supportive neighbourhood walking conditions are particularly important for older people as they age and who, as a group, prefer walking as a form of physical activity. Urban form and socio-economic status (SES) can influence neighbourhood walking behaviour. The objectives of this study were: a) to examine how urban form and neighbourhood SES inter-relate to affect the experiences of ...

Admiration for environment in general needs to be profoundly rooted in an understanding of History. Urban history is unique not only in the fact that it reflects climate but also in that it cuts across many different fields. In most schools of urban studies many aspects of science and technology are taught with relation to design in order to attain skills for practice. During a student’s later ...

Despite much research on the ecological impacts of urbanization, we still do not know what development patterns are most effective in supporting ecological function. In particular, it is as yet unclear if compact urban forms are ecologically more favourable than dispersed forms. Using historical data from the city of Geneva in Switzerland, we present results on its growth from 1841 to 2005, or ...