AN APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING URBAN LANDSCAPE

This thesis will focus on the problem of understanding the "configuration" of urban landscape. Today cities present an infinite series of forms and aggregations, which often give the impression of being spaces ruled by chaotic configuration. What do we consider urban landscape? How do we perceive it? How can other fields of studies help us understand urban landscape, and why? In order to answer these questions the following areas will be analyzed : perception; new approaches in physics; architecture; and aesthetics; and then an eight point paradigm will be proposed.