Testing an Integrated Methodology for Urban Typo-morphological Analysis on Famagusta and Ludlow

ABSTRACT: Urban morphology is a system containing many disciplines within in it and it falls within the interest of different professions such as architecture, geography, philosophy, archeology, anthropology, history and ethnography. In the scope of the thesis only architectural and geographical dimension of urban morphology will be discussed.The main aim of this study is to analyze and compare the urban morphological character of the medieval originated towns at different geographies and different cultures throughout the history up to present. In addition to this, it aims to understand why morphology of towns changed throughout the years and how it is shaped and changed within this process. Thus, origin of urban morphology based on geography at planning level and architecture at typological level will be explored. It aimed to analyse the Conzenian and Caniggian methods, which form the basis of morphological studies on medieval originated towns. It synthesized Conzen and Caniggia concepts and it intends to clarify the research design of cases. The method of analysing the cases –comparative longitudinal case study- is resulted from the theoretical bases of the thesis. In this study, comparative longitudinal case studies methodology is used for testing whether the morphological analysis approaches is applicable in different geographies. At the end it intends to present the synthesized Conzenian’s and Caniggian’s concepts on Famagusta and Ludlow in order to test whether this method would provide an opportunity to apply the integtated methodology for morphological analysis in different regions. Keywords: Urban Morphology, MRG Conzen, G.Caniggia, Morphological Analysis. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………