Profile

Biography

Stephen Marshall is Reader in Urban Morphology and Planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. Dr Marshall has over twenty years’ experience in the built environment fields, initially in consultancy and subsequently in academia. His principal research interests are in urban morphology and street layout, and their relationships with urban formative processes, including urban design, coding and planning. He has written or edited several books, including Streets and Patterns (2005), Land Use and Transport (with David Banister), Cities, Design and Evolution (2009) and Urban Coding and Planning (2011). He was Chair of the Editorial Board of Urban Design and Planning (Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers journal series) from its launch to 2012; and is now co-editor of Built Environment journal.

Research Summary

My research interests address interactions between the following areas:

• Urban design theory;
• Urban morphology;
• Street layout and transport network structure;
• Design and planning codes and rules relating to these;
• Urban 'morphogenetics' and evolution. 

My most recent ongoing research relates to different aspects of urban morphology and urban design and planning:

• My paper 'Science, pseudo-science and urban design' was published in Urban Design International in 2012. 
• I guest edited an issue of Built Environment journal (with Olgu Caliskan) on the theme of Urban Morphology and Design (2011).
• My most recent (edited) book Urban Coding and Planning was publsihed in 2011.

I have presented recently on mathematical aspects of urban morphology - at the MeasUrb workshop in Lisbon, at the AESOP conference in Ankara (both 2012) and at CASA (2013).

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Research activities