Apresentação Pessoal

Vítor Oliveira is the president of the International Seminar on Urban Form - ISUF, principal researcher with habilitation at the Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment - CITTA / FEUP, and professor of Urban Morphology and Spatial Planning at UL. He is associate editor of Urban Morphology, advisory editor of The Urban Book Series - Springer, founding editor of the Revista de Morfologia Urbana (2013-18) and past president of the Portuguese-language Network of Urban Morphology - PNUM (2011-13, 2017-23). His latest books are ISUF: urban morphology and human settlements (2024), Urban morphology: an introduction to the study of the physical form of cities (2022, 2016; translated to Chinese, Persian, Portuguese and Turkish), Morphological research in planning, urban design and architecture (2021), JWR Whitehand and the historico-geographical approach to urban morphology (2019) and Teaching urban morphology (2018). He has translated to Portuguese, with C Monteiro, the classic book Alnwick, Northumberland: a study in town-plan analysis by MRG Conzen. His books and papers (50 of which in ISI or Scopus journals) received about 3.250 citations (Google Scholar).