School of Thought | British School | Italian School | French School |
Origin | German Morphology | Typology Study | Italian school of thought, ideas of Boudon and Lefebvre |
Unit of Analysis | Map Unit | Element or Basic cell | Island |
Aspect | Current situation with emphasizing of alteration procedures | Current situation with consideration of the past’s, without considering the process and procedures of alteration | Development of a type of critical design in order to reach the effects of urban design theories |
Research Layers | City map (Streets and their system, land sites and their assembly in blocks and their design), buildings’ form and function | Elements (buildings), Creation of elements (urban tissue), constructions system and organism of systems (urban and rural regions) | Adding visual elements (3D study of townscape) and perceptive elements (perception of occupants and benefiters) to Italian school of thought |
Purpose of Study | Descriptive-explanative aims | Prescriptive aims | Analysing the design theories of construction of cities in the past. |
Founders and Scholars | Larkham, Conzen, Whitehand | Muratori, Caniggia | Panerai, Castex |
Academic Institutes | Birmingham | (INA) Istituo Nazionaledelle Assicurazioni, University of Rome and The Florentine group | National architecture school of Versailles |