(Urban) Form follows parameters

Keywords: Modeling, Transitional morphologies, Parametric, Urban codes, Algorithm

To answer the question of whether it is still possible today to design the form of the city, it is first of all necessary to question the ability of urban analysis to describe and model the evolutionary processes of urban fabrics. By assuming the city as a phenomenon in transition, and therefore its fabric as in permanent evolution, urban morphology studies, specifically the Italian tradition of studies, can become essential tools in defining a new parametric approach to urban design. The definition of algorithms capable of describing, and then possibly prefiguring, the transitional morphology of the city is based on the definition of qualitative parameters, modeling of consolidated urban types, and on the identification of urban codes that indicate compositional and morphogenetic principles. The aim is to favor the development of a city with a resilient shape to future physical, social or economic stresses.