ESTABLISHMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF MORPHOLOGY AS A BASIC SCIENCE AND ITS POTENTIAL IN THE THEORY OF URBAN PLANNING

The main stages of the formation of morphology as scientific teaching are highlighted and characterized, the fundamental aspects of the concept of "form" are formulated, the features of the formation of morphology as an independent scientific direction are generalized, the categorical analogue of "morphological" in urban planning is traced, and the place of morphology in the teachings of form in urban planning is determined. Outlining the problem of defining the concept of "form" in the theory of urban planning and urbanism, it is accepted that the form of a city is an expressive feature of a city, which is characterized by a certain set of morphological meanings and their formal indicators.