Eighth Conference of the Portuguese-language Network of Urban Morphology (PNUM), Maringa, Brazil, 21-23 August 2019

摘要

PNUM 2019 took place in Maringa, a city born from a regional plan focused on agricultural colonization and whose design was based on formal aspects of the garden city. Under the theme 'Urban form and nature', the conference took advantage of the opportunity to focus on an issue intrinsic to the original layout of this city in order to emphasize the role of nature in shaping cities as a strategy for improving urban conditions. With this objective, the first activity was a workshop putting together relevant pieces of urban morphological research carried out about Maringa and its region. Students from architecture and urban-ism undergraduate and graduate programmes of the Universidade Estadual de Maringa presented the different aspects of the formation and transformation of the urban form, and then escorted the participants on a walking tour around the city centre and on a field trip through the neighbourhoods (Figure 1).