Abstract
The eighth chapter addresses the contributions of urban morphology to fundamental dimensions of our collective life in cities , in particular the social dimension, the economic dimension and the environmental dimension. Bearing in mind the practical achievement of this purpose, five specific issues from these three generic dimensions are selected: public health , social justice , heritage tourism , climate change and energy . The chapter discusses how to strengthen the channels of communication between each one of these issues and the field of urban morphology.
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The IPCC describes resilience as the ability to absorb disturbances, to be changed and then to reorganize and still have the same identity. It includes the ability to learn from the disturbance. A resilient system is forgiving of external shocks. As resilience declines the magnitude of a shock from which it cannot recover gets smaller and smaller. Resilience shifts attention from purely growth and efficiency to needed recovery and flexibility (IPCC 2007).
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This subsection draws on the paper ‘Urban form and energy’, that I have authored with Mafalda Silva, published in the journal ‘Urban Morphology ’ (Oliveira and Silva 2013).
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Oliveira, V. (2016). Relationships with Other Fields of Knowledge. In: Urban Morphology. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32083-0_8
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