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The Caniggian and Conzenian Schools: How different?
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The Caniggian and Conzenian Schools: How different? Camilla Barnes. Monday 22nd February 1999. It is realised that the work of M.R.G. Conzen1 has been of great importance to the studies of Urban Morphology. Towns like any other geographical investigations are, subject to change. They have the histories of growth, expansion, decline and stagnation which in Conzen's post-war analysis of Alnwick, Northumberland has proved to be cyclical. Studies of this practice, especially by Conzen himself, has provided the foundation for extensive work of wider countenance of urban form. Gianfranco Caniggia, an Italian Architect, working at the same time as Conzen, seems to have shared certain views of urban studies with those of his contemporary. Fundamentally both Caniggia and Conzen realise that the understanding and clarity of the city depends on its history. They both assume a close relation between the system of values of a society and urban morphology but as Whitehand (1993)...
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