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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, Fouding 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 above 3.000 citations (Google Scholar). His architectural design of LINDO VALE HOUSE, with C Monteiro, illustrate some of his core ideas on the ground plan and narrow plots.

For more information see the full curriculum vitae. 

Contact: vitorm@fe.up.pt