Useful links 

A list of sites of interest to urban morphologists.

Research Groups

http://www.urbanform.org
The International Seminar on Urban Form - an interdisciplinary group for all those interested in the form of the urban environment.

http://www.intbau.org/
International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism

http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/chrgCultural
Cultural and Historical Geography Research Group at University College London.

http://www.spacesyntax.comthe/
The Space Syntax official homepage.

 

Government Sites

http://www.communities.gov.uk/corporate/ 

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. UK Government department responsible for housing, planning and the regions.

http://www.huduser.org/
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development's web site has information about policy development, research and publications as well as housing links.

Planning Sites

http://www.cip-icu.ca 

Canadian Institute of Planners.

http://www.rudi.net
Resource for Urban Design Information (RUDI) includes information about case studies, government initiatives, journals, bibliographies, and a discussion room. In addition, the site also has an extremely useful diary of forthcoming events.

http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk 

The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London.

History Sites

http://www.le.ac.uk/urbanhist 

The Centre for Urban History University of Leicester.

http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/gaz/gazweb2.html
The Centre for Metropolitan History has produced a fascinating Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516. The main CMH site is also available by clicking here.

Archaeology Sites

http://www.britarch.ac.uk
The Council for British Archaeology. Useful site for conferences and training courses related to archaeology.

 

Contact

For further information please contact Jeremy Whitehand