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Vítor Oliveira is the PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON URBAN FORM (ISUF) and the PRESIDENT OF THE PORTUGUESE-LANGUAGE NETWORK OF URBAN MORPHOLOGY (PNUM). He is Principal Researcher (with 'Agregação') at the Research Centre for Territory Transports and Environment (CITTA / FEUP) and Professor of Urban Morphology and Urban Planning at ULP. He is an architect (FAUP), has a MSc in Planning and Design of the Built Environment (FAUP/FEUP), and a PhD in Planning / Civil Engineering (FEUP). He is ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF 'URBAN MORPHOLOGY', Advisory Editor of 'The Urban Book Series' (Springer) and Fouding Editor of the 'Revista de Morfologia Urbana' (2013-18).

His research areas are urban morphology, urban planning, architecture and cities. In these research areas, he has authored more than 200 publications and communications, including about 40 papers in international peer-reviewed journals listed in Scopus or ISI, namely the highly-cited 'Evaluation in urban planning: advances and prospects'. He has been working in different research projects supported by national and international founding, including 'Knowledge Alliance for Evidence Based Urban Practices' / KAEBUP, and he has been part of several scientific and organizing committees of international conferences, including the 21st International Seminar on Urban Form (Chair of the Conference).

In 2016 he published  'URBAN MORPHOLOGY. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE PHYSICAL FORM OF CITIES' (a second edition has just been published), a textbook on urban morphology taught by the author in courses in 10 universities in Portugal, Brazil, Spain and China - the most recent of which Zhejiang University. In the last years he published 'TEACHING URBAN MORPHOLOGY', 'JWR WHITEHAND AND THE HISTORICO-GEOGRAPHICAL APPROACH TO URBAN MORPHOLOGY', 'MORPHOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN PLANNING, URBAN DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE', as well as the portuguese translation (with Cláudia Monteiro) of the classic ALNWICK, NORTHUMBERLAND: A STUDY IN TOWN-PLAN ANALYSIS.

For more information see the full curriculum vitae. 

Contact: vitorm@fe.up.pt