M.R.G. Conzen

Michael Robert Günter Conzen (Berlin, 21 January 1907 – Newcastle upon Tyne, 4 February 2000) was a geographer, founder of the Anglo-German school of urban morphology. Conzen's most influential work is a detailed morphological study of the English market town of Alnwick. His work is noted among others for the micro-scale study of the evolution of plots.

M.R.G. Conzen studied geography, history and philosophy at the University of Berlin between 1926–1932. In 1933 Conzen emigrated to the UK, where he studied at the Victoria University of Manchester first obtaining a diploma in town and country planning in 1936 and a master's degree in historical geography in 1942.

Whitehand, J.R.W. (2001): "British Urban Morphology: the Conzenian tradition", in Urban Morphology, vol.5, nr.2, pg.103-109

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