ABOUT ISUF

ISUF is the international organization of urban form for researchers and practitioners. 
It was inaugurated in 1994, bringing together urban morphologists worldwide. It seeks to advance research and practice in fields concerned with the built environment. Members are drawn from several disciplines, including architecture, geography, history, sociology and town planning. ISUF organizes conferences, publishes the journal Urban Morphology and provides an international framework for communication between members.
  • ISUF 1996 Lausanne, Switzerland,
  • ISUF 1997 Birmingham, UK
  • ISUF 1998 Versailles, France
  • ISUF 1999 Florence, Italy
  • ISUF 2000 Commissions and Working Parties, Groningen, The Netherlands
  • ISUF 2001 Retrospective on urban morphology at the millennium, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
  • ISUF 2002 The work of Gianfranco Caniggia, Cernobbio, Italy
  • ISUF 2003 The planned city? Trani, Italy
  • ISUF 2004 Urban morphology at the IGU, Glasgow and Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
  • ISUF 2005 Tradition and modernity in urban form, London, UK
  • ISUF 2006 Nordic and international urban morphology, Stockholm, Sweden
  • ISUF 2007 Urban morphology in a global era, Ouro Preto, Brazil
  • ISUF 2008 Landscape and urban form Artimino, Italy
  • ISUF 2009 Urban morphology and urban transformation Guangzhou, China
  • ISUF 2010 Formation and persistence of townscape Hamburg, Germany
  • ISUF 2011 Urban morphology and the post-carbon city, Montréal, Canada
  • ISUF 2012 New urban configurations, Delft, The Netherlands
  • ISUF 2013 Urban form at the edge, Brisbane, Australia,
  • ISUF 2014 Our common future in urban morphology, Porto, Portugal
  • ISUF 2015 City as organism, Rome, Italy
  • ISUF 2016 Urban morphology and the resilient city, Nanjing, China
  • ISUF 2017 City and territory in the globalization age, Valencia, Spain
  • ISUF 2018 Urban form and social context, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
  • ISUF 2019 Cities as Assemblages, Nicosia, Cyprus
  • ISUF 2020 The 21st Century City, Salt lake City, USA
  • ISUF 2021 Urban form and the sustainable prosperous city, Glasgow, Skotland
  • ISUF 2022 Spatial redevelopment and revitalisation: a multidisciplinary perspective, Łódź Kraków, Poland
  • #30 ISUF 2023 BELGRADE, SERBIA