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5th ISUFitaly International Conference- Urban Substrata and City Regeneration: Morphological Legacies and Design Tools., Rome, Italy, 19 - 22 February 2020, pp.79-86
Urban form is the interface between the social life
and the physical environment of the city. Form based practices, cannot be
thought without human dimension. It is people and their living styles that
shapes the urban character in a place. Urban form as, communizing tool, a unifier; to identify one’s reign and land that emphasizing democracy and equity. It also emphasizes ‘familiarity’ through an urban code; information provided by the intersections of different urban layers
or elements in various cases. Form was created for natural reasons and human
based reasons. In ancient city forms and formations, the site selection of
settlements seems only dependent to the topography, they are not any different
than the primordial instinct of human (Rykwert, 1976). However, in time with
the increasing number of population and the concern of managing the resources,
urban forms started to be shaped by various dynamics. Accordingly, form-based
study of this paper includes different paradigms and perspectives appropriate
to the time period studied. Ancient urban form, its generation process and the
metamorphosis experienced in route to contemporary form and its own dynamics are the two main
research fields of the study. By doing this, after the identification of two mentioned phases, a critical review of change process of urban form is focused on. At the very final, reimagination of urban form generation will be
discussed for further.