Apparent and latent in the urban townscape.

What is it about?

Cities have an urban townscape with urban and social characteristics that define and highlight the personality and identity of each city. Based on the reading and analysis of some previous studies, this paper aims to provide a platform for building a knowledge base on the concept of the urban townscape, which is an important aspect within the urban environment, highlighting the dynamism of latent moral values as well as upgrading the urban townscape in those cities. The study that was conducted adopted a qualitative approach due to its exploratory nature, according to previous studies that dealt with the concept of the townscape in the urban environment.

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Photo by Claudio Mezzasalma on Unsplash

Why is it important?

First: Defining the concept of townscape in language and terminology, definitions of urban townscape specialists and the most important of their proposals. Second: Study and analysis of previous literature: Determining the physical and intangible components of the townscape in the urban environment and their contribution to highlighting the future urban townscape, its features and factors affecting it, as well as addressing the mechanisms of intervention on the components of the urban townscape, leading to the most important indicators extracted.