ISUF

International Seminar on Urban Form

ISUF is the international organization of urban form for researchers and practitioners. It was inaugurated in 1994, bringing together urban morphologists worldwide. It seeks to advance research and practice in fields concerned with the built environment. Members are drawn from several disciplines, including architecture, geography, history, sociology and town planning.

ISUF was created to rectify the lack of a common forum for researchers and practitioners concerned with urban form. In the early decades after the Second World War urban research expanded greatly. It did so within a wide range of disciplines and specialisms – architecture, archaeology, geography, history, planning, urban design, spatial analysis, space syntax and heritage studies – to name a few. But research and interest groups tended to function in isolation from one another. The problem was made worse by language barriers.

ISUF’s aim is the international and interdisciplinary sharing of ideas, methods and findings concerned with urban form. Beginning in 1994 with the coming together of some 20 architects, geographers, planners and historians, representing four different language areas, it now has some 600 individual and institutional members from about 50 countries.

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