Book Chapter

·2011

A Theory for Sustainability of Townscape

Tan Kamil Gürer YTU

Advances in environmental engineering and green technologies book series

Abstract

Many metropolitan cities have been faced with sustainability issues at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The problems are related to several subjects. Two of them are essential for the sustainability of townscapes: one is the subject of visual sustainability of the character of a townscape, and the other is the sustainable development of the city and its relation with the urban form. Overcoming the difficulties arising from the improper use of city’s resources can be possible by understanding the true nature of its urban form, how urban landscapes have developed historically, and which processes have shaped their forms. Typomorphology is a method for understanding the character of the urban form. It reveals the physical and spatial structure of cities. In this work, typomorphological method will be introduced, and its importance will be discussed according to sustainability of townscapes.

Keywords

Sustainability Metropolitan area Character (mathematics) Relation (database) Urban sustainability Geography Subject (documents) Sustainable city Work (physics) Sustainable development Environmental planning Environmental ethics Sociology Political science Engineering Computer science Archaeology Mathematics Philosophy Law Ecology

Subject Areas

Urban Design and Spatial Analysis ·Building and Construction ·Physical Sciences

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