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This chapter describes the main motivation for writing this book, as well as its object and structure. Drawing on the absence of urban morphology manuals, a textbook on the study of the physical form of cities is proposed. The book is structured in seven different parts: the elements of urban form, the agents and processes of transformation, cities in history, three contemporary cities, the study of urban form - different approaches, from theory to practice and, finally, the relationships with other fields of knowledge.
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Oliveira, V. (2016). Introduction. In: Urban Morphology. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32083-0_1
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