eprintid: 10186115 rev_number: 25 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/18/61/15 datestamp: 2024-01-26 11:56:14 lastmod: 2024-02-12 15:05:55 status_changed: 2024-01-26 11:56:14 type: proceedings_section metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Okkali Alsavada, Merve creators_name: Karimi, Kayvan creators_name: Krenz, Kimon title: The Morphogenesis of the Dutch Landscape: The Narrative of Dutch Cities’ Medieval Core ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C04 divisions: F36 keywords: space syntax, spatio-configurational analysis, Dutch city, urban morphology note: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. abstract: Although the initial inception, or genesis, of a city’s urban grid, is an important marker of its evolution over time, the process of urban transformation, or morphogenesis, can substantially alter its original townscape. This study sheds light on the morphogenetic impacts of the pre-industrialisation period on shaping the spatial configuration of the historical cores of three Dutch cities, Amsterdam, the Hague, and Delft. While some cities have undergone processes of expansion as physical growth of different grid types, others followed the historical patterns of genesis. This study aims to analyse the spatial mechanisms and morphological logic that lay out the medieval core of Dutch cities to create an adaptive approach for evolving in tandem with waterways. The study: i) reviews the literature and ongoing research initiatives on the Dutch urban planning paradigms and strategies through various time periods; ii) proposes a new spatio-temporal description of the medieval core of cities and their infrastructure, including streets and water networks; and iii) analyses the patterns of their historical core using a space syntax-based approach. Space syntax method and tools are applied to critically understand urban morphologies, as it provides quantitative analysis on multiple scales. The study shows how the relationship with water can constitute a path dependency for urban growth, highlighting the role of water in shaping movement patterns. Those different types of grid structures, such as organic, compact, accumulative, discontinuous, cellular etc., produce different spatial growth mechanisms as a powerful instrument in controlling and defining the functions of cities dominated by water. date: 2024 date_type: published publisher: University of Belgrade - Faculty of Architecture official_url: https://raf.arh.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1963 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2141639 isbn_13: 978-86-7924-342-3 lyricists_name: Okkali Alsavada, Merve lyricists_id: MOKKA68 actors_name: Okkali Alsavada, Merve actors_id: MOKKA68 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public pres_type: paper publication: ISUF 2023 Praxis of Urban Morphology: Conference Proceedings Part II volume: 2 pagerange: 1304-1318 event_title: XXX Conference of the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF2023) event_location: Belgrade, Serbia event_dates: 4th-10th September 2023 book_title: Conference Proceedings - Part II: XXX Conference of the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF2023). Praxis of Urban Morphology editors_name: Djokić, V editors_name: Djordjević, A editors_name: Pešić, M editors_name: Milojević, M editors_name: Milovanovič, A citation: Okkali Alsavada, Merve; Karimi, Kayvan; Krenz, Kimon; (2024) The Morphogenesis of the Dutch Landscape: The Narrative of Dutch Cities’ Medieval Core. In: Djokić, V and Djordjević, A and Pešić, M and Milojević, M and Milovanovič, A, (eds.) Conference Proceedings - Part II: XXX Conference of the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF2023). Praxis of Urban Morphology. (pp. pp. 1304-1318). University of Belgrade - Faculty of Architecture Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10186115/1/Okkali%20Alsavada_The%20Morphogenesis%20of%20the%20Dutch%20Landscape.%20The%20Narrative%20of%20Dutch%20Cities%20Medieval%20Core_VoR.pdf