“…Research publications on the significance of urban morphology to urban design practice began to be explored from the 1980s onwards (Samuels, 1985(Samuels, , 1990Moudon, 1992Moudon, , 1994Moudon, , 1995Kropf, 1993;Scheer, 2008). Research on the composite structure of the urban landscape has been used as a basis for developing urban design proposals (Maretto, 2005) and form-based development plans (Hall, 2000(Hall, , 2007(Hall, , 2008. The journal Urban Morphology and the International Seminar on Urban Form, which were launched in 1997 and 1994, respectively, have been at the forefront in strengthening the link between urban morphology and urban design in recent years.…”