Urban Morphology and Social Attachment:

This book explores the relationship between urban morphology, social attachment, and the role city planners must embrace to become advocates of land development policies that positively affect good city form, social attachment, and neighborhood livability. A brief history of city building and urban morphology is explored as a means of examining the forces and guiding principles that have shaped successful neighborhoods and communities of the past. Neighborhoods social attachment is a central element of city design and practice; however social values are neglected by planners and other professionals in many urban centers.This book carry out a comparative analysis of two types of settlements, namely traditional and conventional to determine the nature and extent of how urban morphology in relation to social attachment in the two neighborhood type. Questions examined the direct social attachment residents¿ felt from living in and experiencing the physical attributes of their neighborhood.