Morphological Transformation of Cities; Integrating Sustainable Urban Form with Ecological Urbanism

Abstract

This paper identifies transformation of urban morphology, form and urbanization impacts on both city's form and ecological functions. It explores, in particular, the transformation of urban spatial configuration and their relationship with the ecosystem. Also, it addresses the question of whether urban form contributes to the sustainable ecological urbanism. The methodology aims to integrate existing urban form and ecological urbanism approaches to improve the ecosystem of future cities. The research demonstrates how one can transform a city into a sustainable ecological urban environment, using the integrated approaches. The synthesis between urban form and ecological urbanism are able to produce ecologically sustainable urban environment.