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000050929 001__ 50929 000050929 005__ 20240719114622.0 000050929 0247_ $$2URN$$aurn:nbn:de:hbz:82-opus-37190 000050929 0247_ $$2HSB$$a999910120897 000050929 0247_ $$2OPUS$$a3719 000050929 037__ $$aRWTH-CONV-006012 000050929 041__ $$aEnglish 000050929 082__ $$a720 000050929 1001_ $$0P:(DE-82)009342$$aLey, Karsten$$b0$$eAuthor$$urwth 000050929 1112_ $$a7. Conference International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF): “Formation and Persistence of Townscape”; 20.-23. August 2010, Hamburg/Lübeck 000050929 245__ $$aUnderstanding urban forms as results of a conditioning system of interrelated factors : some thoughts on the issue of morphologically defining the city$$honline 000050929 260__ $$aAachen$$bPublikationsserver d. RWTH Aachen Univ.$$c2010 000050929 300__ $$a13 S. 000050929 3367_ $$0PUB:(DE-HGF)6$$2PUB:(DE-HGF)$$aConference Presentation$$bconf$$mconf 000050929 3367_ $$033$$2EndNote$$aConference Paper 000050929 3367_ $$2DataCite$$aOther 000050929 3367_ $$2ORCID$$aLECTURE_SPEECH 000050929 3367_ $$2DRIVER$$aconferenceObject 000050929 3367_ $$2BibTeX$$aINPROCEEDINGS 000050929 520__ $$aSince the beginning of a theoretical occupation with the »city« there is a large uncertainty in defining what urban form is and what it eventually consists of. As a matter of fact, we somewhat instinctively attribute morphologically completely diverse urban entities with this term, notwithstanding their often utterly unlike topographic settings or cultural backgrounds. Moreover, we do so not only with properly existing entities, but expand our »idea of the city« also over the past. And yet, until today we do not find considerable comprehensive definitions for the »city«, which cover all its aspects. Moreover, the growing uncertainty of how to plan and design cities today eventually aggravates the assignment. Yet, despite the definitory quandary, our »idea of the city« is seemingly settled on a commonsensical formal conception than on scientifically verifiable functional features: We recognize cities by taking a look at their layout from an airplane window or by approaching a city's skyline in a vehicle. We perceive urban space by strolling through its streets and places, or even by visiting deserted archaeological sites of long gone civilizations. For this perception, arguably, the sheer formal appearance is sufficient, to which we then of course add functional relations according to our contemporary understanding of urban life. Ultimately, one might speak of a »formal urban continuum« that for us exists since the Bronze Age and carries on until today and which without further thought is inscribed in our common knowledge as reference for any urban entity we encounter. The aim of the proposed presentation is to suggest an approach towards this formal urban continuum, by examining its phenomenological condition and by investigating for its possible parameters, whose systemic interrelation might, in spite of the common formal idea, eventually explain the grand diversity of cities.$$leng 000050929 591__ $$aGermany 000050929 650_7 $$2SWD$$aStädtebau 000050929 650_7 $$2SWD$$aStadtgeographie 000050929 653_7 $$aArchitektur 000050929 653_7 $$2eng$$aurban theory 000050929 653_7 $$2eng$$aurbanism 000050929 8564_ $$uhttps://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/50929/files/3719.pdf 000050929 909CO $$ooai:publications.rwth-aachen.de:50929$$purn$$pdriver$$pVDB$$popen_access$$popenaire$$qdnbdelivery 000050929 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)0510$$2StatID$$aOpenAccess 000050929 9201_ $$0I:(DE-82)217320_20140620$$k217320$$lLehr- und Forschungsgebiet Stadtbaugeschichte$$x0 000050929 961__ $$c2014-03-20$$x2012-01-03$$z2012-02-20 000050929 970__ $$ahsb999910120897 000050929 9801_ $$aFullTexts 000050929 980__ $$aconf 000050929 980__ $$aI:(DE-82)217320_20140620 000050929 980__ $$aVDB 000050929 980__ $$aUNRESTRICTED 000050929 980__ $$aConvertedRecord 000050929 980__ $$aFullTexts