A Morphological Approach to Cities and Their Regions

First part: Syivain Malfroy: An introduction to the terminology of the Muratorian school with special reference to the methodological work of Gianfranco Caniggia p.37, I. Presentation and Guidelines for Reading p.39, Can the monographic study of an individual city serve as an introduction to the history of urbanisation? p.40, Towards a problem-based conception of the history of urbanization p.41, Centre and periphery in urbanistic innovation p.44, Anatomy of the different levels of information in a city monograph p.46, The point of departure, a) The relationship between existing structures and new interventions in the city and the territory b) The relationship between the disciplines of history and design in the teaching of architecture p.48, 2 Big ideas and their fallacies p.51,The theoretical project p.53, Confronting fundamental issues and the stakes involved p.55, The methodological approach p.57, The confrontation with things p.60, Reference corpus bibliography p.62, II. Using Models as Cognitive Instruments p.72, On the uses and limitations of models a) Models of periodisation in general history b) Models of periodisation in urban development III. Questions of Terminology p.93, Metaphors and neologisms: characteristics of a theory still being formulated p.94, Language: the scientific and the colloquial p.96, The influence of leading disciplines,Difficulties of communication p.97, The need for an active reader a) The notion of yield (rendimento) in the context of urban renewal b) Reference to "local peculiarities" and the problem of cultural minorities p.98, The danger of overvaluing the analogies p.100, Scientific language as verbal bricolage p.102, IV. The Tradition and Range of Meaning of Organic Metaphors p.105, The concept of the "organism and its connotations in the original context p.106, Politics, the arts, and architecture: The traditional use of organic metaphors p.107, Architectural theory and its diverse ties to the organic world, The stylistic label, Frank Lloyd Wright: No intellectual father of the Muratori School p.108, Divergent views of the professional role of the architect, Divergent models of urbanism, Divergent methodological stances p.109, Prophesying the architecture of the future, The American version: Sigfried Giedion p.111, The American version as revised and corrected by the Associazione per I'Architettura Organica (APAO): Bruno Zevi, interpreter of Wright and Walter Curt Behrendt p.112, Remembering the "classics": Saverio Muratori p.113, Singling out an unsolved problem p.113, The tradition of organicist thought as perpetual background to architectural theory, The organicist perspective as defined by the general questions it addresses p.115, V. The Model of the Urban Organism in the Theory of Gianfranco Caniggia p.135, Mastering complexity, The approach of systems theory p.136, The morphological perspective, Morphological reduction p.137, The course of history as an energy economy p.138, The selection of specific architectural data p.139, The structure of human settlement as derived from its process of formation p.141, The concept of "aggregation" and differences of scale p.141, The codification of types, Defining the notion of the type, Defining the notion of the standard, Types: a priori and a posteriori p.143, Typological analysis as a scientific undertaking, The idea of the module p.144, The idea of the typological process p.145, The crystallisation of permanent structures p.146, The dialectic between individual action and collective development p.148, The idea of the leading typological process, The idea of the synchronic variant p.151, Modelling urban growth as a gradual and uninterrupted process p.152, Modelling urban growth as a discontinuous process p.153, Second part: Gianfranco Caniggia: A Structural Reading of Florence p.189, 1. The City as Organism: Priority of the Basic Urban Fabric over Individual Monuments p.190, 2. Persisting Features of the Formative Process: Reading Urban Development in the Structure of Streets and Lots p.192, 3. Florence: A City and its Site as Determined by History and Territory p.198, 4. Remains of Roman Planning in the Territory of Florence p.200, 5. Mutation and Formation Phases of the Ancient City: a) The plan of the castrum, b) The colonia, c) The Caesarian municipium, d) Expansion of the imperial period and the monumental buildings,p.208, 6. Morphology of Today's Urban Fabric as Derived from the Roman Ground Plan: a) The city before the wall of 1173, b) The city between 1173 and 1280, c) The city from 1284 to 1400, d) The city from 1400 to 1584, e) The city at the time of the Leopoldian cadastre, f) From the period of the Grand Dukes to modern times p.211, 7. Elements of Comparison from the Fabric of Other Italian Historic Cities p.232, 8. The Typological Process of the Florentine House from the Domus to the Casa in Linea: a) Mutations of the roman domus, b) The merchant's courtyard house, c) The courtyard row house (casa a corte-schiera), d) The row house, e) Urban apartment buildings (case in linea), p.252, 9. Monastic Cadastres as Sources for the History of Building p.259