Title: Planning Practice and the Shaping of the Urban Pattern
Abstract: The general dissatisfaction about the quality of the urban built environment gave rise to questions on the link between practice and research on urban form in the last decades. Within these two sides of inseparable relation, research is related to understanding and explanation of physical form and its functioning through an investigation of the change of urban form throughout long periods, while practice is concerned with shaping the physical form of the urban fabric through creating an urban composition. This study examines the relation between research and practice on urban form with a particular attention to the development of planning decisions and their implementation. Turkish planning practice is taken into consideration for such a discussion. It is seen that morphological research is not the basis for the prescription of the future development, and practitioners are not aware of the essence of the subject that they are dealing with. There is a need for an education strategy to develop responsive planning policies.
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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