From iconographies to morphologies. An overview on European and Chinese urban forms through 10 images

The main question of the work is explaining how urban morphology and iconographic studies on urban contexts can collaborate in order to map the features of urban spaces in different cultures, even adopting comparative methods for analysing. The presentation will describe the form, the size and the use of “urban spaces” in the European City, as well as in the Chinese one, through a diachronic sequence of ten images (from the Middle Ages until the Eighties and until today).