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CyNUM’s 2nd Regional Urban Morphology Conference

 

Conference Brief
CyNUM’s 2nd Regional Urban Morphology Conference aims to establish a common platform to discuss further how cities, in the
context of the south-eastern Mediterranean, transform over time by concentrating on their urban morphological characteristics.
The conference sets up an academic and professional arena in which urban morphology would be explored through heritage
conservation-based urban transformation, regeneration-based urban transformation, and (re)development-based urban
transformation within the rich urban context of south-eastern Mediterranean cities. The sub-themes of the conference are as follows:
• Transformation of Urban Form
• Architecture, Heritage and Urban Form
• Conservation of Urban Landscape
• Public Space Network

Organising Committee (Alphabetic Order)
Gizem Caner, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, Cyprus International University
Alessandro Camiz, Associate Prof., Department of Architecture, Ozyegin University
Nevter Zafer Cömert, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Eastern Mediterranean University.
Ilaria Geddes, Researcher, Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus
Şebnem Önal Hoşkara, Professor, Department of Architecture, Eastern Mediterranean University (Conference Chair)
Nezire Ozgece, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, Cyprus International University

Scientific Committee (Alphabetic Order)
Ali Alraouf, HBKU University, Doha, Qatar
Cana Bilsel, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Olgu Çalışkan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Naciye Doratlı, Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus
Sergio Garcia Perez, University of Zaragoza
Payam Mahasti, Cyprus International University, Cyprus
Marco Maretto, University of Parma & Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Ayşe Sema Kubat, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey.
Giuseppe Strappa, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Tolga Ünlü, Çukurova University, Turkay
Malgorzata Hanzl, Lodz University of Technology, Poland

 

Cities as Assemblages – XXVI International Seminar on Urban Form 2019

XXVI International Seminar on Urban Form 2019
Cities as Assemblages
2-6 July 2019
Nicosia, CYPRUS
Cyprus Network of Urban Morphology

 

 

 

 

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Cyprus Network of Urban Morphology will host the ISUF2019 conference in Nicosia, Cyprus. The conference aims to address the embedding of different theories and approaches within methodologies analysing the urban form.
Relational theories have wide implications for the study of the urban form, not just in terms of how we conceptualize cities and describe the processes of their emergence and transformation, but also for the design of methodologies that more than ever need to take into account a variety of city components – not just physical elements, but also human groups and the connections between them. Furthermore, such theories highlight the relevance of the urban form to the construction and negotiation of the social as well as the power of connections between social entities at different scales in shaping our cities. Both these reflections are particularly relevant to
the focus themes related to the location of the conference: Group formations and negotiations within cities influencing ethnoreligious tensions, political movements, social segregation and
urban conflicts more widely, as well as the particular status of port cities often in the past more linked to other port cities than their hinterland and, still to the present day, the first point of
arrival of migrant groups and the city-location of choice for tourism.
Although the relevance of relational theories for the fields of geography and urban studies has been touched upon by a number of research articles, the theories have not been reflected upon with great depth and no conferences on the impact and the potentialities of relational theories for urban studies have so far taken place. Discussion on the implications of such theories specifically for the study of urban morphology has been even scarcer, may these be in relation to Conzenian, typological or space syntax approaches.
Relational theories open up new avenues for the study of urban morphology and for the development of multidisciplinary methodologies.

Conference themes:
1. Theory 1 : emergence, relational theories, the social sciences and urban
morphology.
2. Theory 2 : the scope and limits of urban theories.
3. Urban Design : urban morphology, building typology and design
4. Methods 1 : embedding different approaches into the study of urban morphology.
5. Methods 2 : combining Conzenian, typological and space syntax approaches.
6. Focus 1 : urban conflict and divided cities.
7. Focus 2 : Mediterranean port cities in a global context.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Wendy McClure, University of Idaho, USA
Alan Penn, University College London, UK
Giuseppe Strappa, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Jeremy Whitehand, University of Birmingham, UK

Call for papers : 31st of July 2018
Abstract submission : 14th of December 2018
Acceptance notification : 10th of February 2019
Author registration and
Payment : 31st of March 2019
Full paper submission : 31st of May 2019
Conference : 2nd – 6th July 2019
Publication of proceedings : to be announced