ABSTRACT
Cultural patterns affect the forms of urban structures and leave lasting imprints. In order to answer the task of ‘reading urban structures’, I look first at the disciplines which might contribute to it. In the first step, I point at the complexity science as a common ground which enables the desired congruence of scientific fields. The urban morphology and urban design studies, disciplines growing during the last decades, offer the apparatus which needs to be linked with anthropology to enable the reading. They both become the point of departure and the intellectual perspective to look at the body of research of other disciplines. Ensuing, a brief explanation of the approach applied throughout the book has been given. It is followed by the presentation of the research structure and a short introduction to the case study. The last part of the introductory section explains the principal goals of the research.
