TY - JOUR T1 - Urban form and digitalization of urban design JF - Urban Planning International Y1 - 2018 A1 - Chenghe Guan AB - In the mid-18 Century, John Snow utilized spatial data analysis to trace the source of a cholera outbreak in London. His methods established the fundamental theory of using urban morphological study to solve practical urban issues. Accompanied by rapid innovation, technological improvement, and increasing computational power, urban morphology has been widely applied to digitalization of urban design. Through the urban form elements proposed by Kevin Lynch, this paper introduces the development of urban morphology in relation to digitalization of urban design in education, design practice and academic research. This paper adopts a variety of international case studies and discusses the importance of urban form and digitalization of urban design at a global scale. VL - 33 UR - http://www.upi-planning.org/EN/Magazine/Show.aspx?ID=47301 IS - 1 N1 - Final Manuscript in DASH ER -