Urban form development under the impact of bridges: Case study of Florence

Cities consist of the social, economic and physical layers with unique qualities each of. For this reason, they have very complex structures. At the same time, cities are dynamic living organisms because of the human factor in them. One of the outstanding urban sub-branches of science, examining the processes of historical development of cities is "urban history".In this thesis; the form, the theoretical bases of the concepts of settlement and the bridge, all the dynamics affecting the development of a concept in practice, different settlement typologies, the need for connecting to each other between the formation of settlements, separated by the water element of the role of technology in connecting settlements to each other; by examining the items that affect the development of urban form, role of bridges in the development of urban form will be presented. In this study, a conceptual-based comparative method and historical perspective will be preferred.Addingly, as a case-study, city of Florence has been choosen in this work especially because of bridges and different macroform features and changes in each terms.As a result of study on the historical development of physical, social and economic contexts of Florence, it seems that, the construction of bridges and change process of urban forms are related to each other. And also it?s possible to sign that bridges have a complemetary role on water?s edge urban form.Key words: macroform /urban form, bridge, urban development process / change of form