Typo-morphological assessment of Ludlow and Famagusta Old Town

Nevter Zafer Cömert; Şebnem Hoşkara

doi:10.47818/DRArch.2021.v2i2018

Typo-morphological assessment of Ludlow and Famagusta Old Town

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Nevter Zafer Cömert Short Bio Eastern Mediterranean University

Nevter Zafer Cömert is an associate professor at Eastern Mediterranean University Department of Architecture at Northern Cyprus. Her research areas are; Urban Morphology, Typo-morphology, Urban Culture, Urban Landscape, and Public Place. She is the Associate Editor of a recently published academic journal – Journal of Urban Research and Development. Also she is vice chair of Urban Research and Development Center. She is a president at Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Landscape Architect since 2016. Also she is one of the founding member and co-president of Cyprus Network of Urban Morphology (CyNUM). As an urban design and landscape architecture expert she provides local supervision to local authorities. Cömert took EU research award at the University of Porto in 2018 and another grant at the University of Birmingham in 2003.
Şebnem Hoşkara Short Bio Eastern Mediterranean University

Şebnem Hoşkara is a tenured professor of Architecture and Urbanism (Urban Design) at the Department of Architecture, Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) in Cyprus. She is the Director of Urban Research and Development Center (URDC) of EMU and Director of EMU Press Executive Committee. She is the Editor of a recently published academic journal – Journal of Urban Research and Development. She worked as a Visiting Professor at University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) as the Interim Director of Urban and Regional Planning (URP) Graduate Programs between 1 September 2018-31 May 2019 and she was the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at EMU between October 2010 – October 2016. She is a founding member of Cyprus Network for Urban Morphology (CYNUM), and a member of ISOCARP, EDRA, Europa Nostra, ISUF and TICCIH. Professor Hoskara does research in Architectural and Urban Design Education, Urban Morphology, Public Space and Placemaking, Sustainable Urban Design and Planning, SDGs, Cultural Heritage Conservation and Conservation of Industrial Heritage in Cyprus. Her recent projects are 'EMU Campus Master Plan' and 'Urban Design Guidelines in Alsancak Village, Kyrenia'. She has supervised 8 PhD and 17 Master’s thesis and currently supervising 8 PhDs and 4 Masters.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47818/DRArch.2021.v2i2018

Keywords:

Ludlow, Famagusta, urban morphology, historico-geographical approach, procedural typological approach

Abstract

In the field of urban morphology, different scholars have developed different approaches. The pioneering approaches are the procedural-typological approach of G. Caniggia and G.L. Maffei and the historico-evolutionary approach of M.R.G. Conzen, which are the focus of this paper. However, it is also worth mentioning J.W.R. Whitehand (1981), who integrated the analysis of changes to the built fabric with the study of the individuals and organizations involved in the various aspects of property development, users, planners, and architects. As well, Kropf (2009) named four distinct approaches – spatial analytical, configurational, process typological, and historico-geographical – for the purpose of determining more explicitly which aspects are included in the different approaches to urban morphology. Based on the theoretical approaches of the above-mentioned scholars, in the scope of this article, the architectural and planning dimensions of urban morphology will be discussed for Ludlow and Famagusta, which carry similar morphological characteristics on the planning level and different typological characteristics on the architectural level. Ludlow is a small market town in the south of Shropshire, England; it is a few miles east of the Welsh border. Famagusta, with its Old Town, is a small market town in the eastern part of Cyprus. This article explores urban morphology based on the two pioneering morphological approaches, and then it sets up a typo-morphological basis for Ludlow and Famagusta through an integrated approach. The belief is that such an integrated approach will drive future interventions, design, and planning policies towards their conservation.

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Zafer Cömert, N., & Hoşkara, Şebnem. (2021). Typo-morphological assessment of Ludlow and Famagusta Old Town. Journal of Design for Resilience in Architecture and Planning, 2(2), 170–186. https://doi.org/10.47818/DRArch.2021.v2i2018