This is a study about analysis and design of Tilburg urban form. Apart from the given theme: Typomorphology, City as Urbanized Landscape, Open City concept, and City as Complex System, the intention is to also see it from human’s perspective. This study is approached with a city metaphor theory (Ungers, 1982) as the underlying theory and bridging the link between investigating the physical aspect of a city and interpreting it into the portrait of a city. City metaphor are used in the two investigation, Tilburg formation: City as Zoo, and Tilburg today: City as dynamic ecosystem.
The conclusions of the study are the transformative power of each investigation. This transformative powers are used to predict Tilburg future development to be the open(ing) city. The basic idea of the prediction is using the landscape as the main structure that can blend the city together.
