Carlos Nunes Silva
Biographic Data
| ID | 288128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carlos Nunes Silva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carlos Nunes |
| FAMILY NAME | Silva |
| SIGNATURE | SILVA C N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lisbon |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7874-9271 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
African urban planning histories
Africa is undergoing major demographic changes, with much of this occurring in urban areas. Projections indicate that the urban population will reach 1.4 billion by the mid-twenty-first century.1 T
Paradigmaváltások a helyi és városi kormányzásban: Szerkesztői bevezető a tematikus számhoz
Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco
Paleontology and Environmental Justice: Making Connections Through Political Ecology
Far from studying only beings from the past, Paleontology is a current science which can situate human existence in the context of the global environmental crisis before inequalities and socio-environmental conflicts which occur in Brazilian paleontological sites. Aiming to discuss possible connections between Paleontology and Environmental Justice, this essay arises from a survey on environmental conflicts existing in the paleontological sites i…
Fiscal Austerity and Innovation in Local Governance in Europe
Contents: Preface Introduction, Carlos Nunes Silva and Jan BuAiek. Part I: Local self-government finance in Slovakia during the 2008-11 crisis, Jan BuAiek and Andrej Sopkuliak The economic adjustment program impact on local government reform in Portugal, Carlos Nunes Silva Public services in European countries: between public/municipal and private sector provision - and reverse?, Hellmut Wollmann. Part II: The role of local governance in strength…
Urban Planning in North Africa
Urban Planning in Lusophone African Countries
The Prenda District in Luanda: Building on Top of the Colonial City
The literature on colonial urban planning in Africa shows how planning models and tools developed in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were extensively used in the African colonies by all European colonial empires (Silva, 2015). Despite the radically different challenges urban planning now faces in Africa, in particular those associated with urban transition (UN, 2014), the globalization of economic relations (Briggs and Yeboah, 20…
Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial and Post-Colonial Planning Cultures
On planting and planning. The making of British colonial cities
The second edition of On Planting and Planning. The Making of British Colonial Cities, updated with new information, and the re-edition of the short account of the planning of Lusaka – Lusaka: The
Sustainable Development and Subnational Governments: Policy-making and Multi-level Interactions
Sustainable Development and Subnational Governments: Policy-making and Multi-level Interactions." Regional & Federal Studies, 24(4), pp. 530–531
Garden cities and colonial planning: Transnationality and urban ideas in Africa and Palestine
The book Garden Cities and Colonial Planning, edited by Liora Bigon and Yossi Katz, discusses the transmission, diffusion and modification of the ‘garden city’ planning paradigm in Africa and in Pa
Colonial and postcolonial urban planning in Africa’, International Planning History Society and Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 5–6 September 2013
The conference ‘Colonial and Postcolonial Urban Planning in Africa’, organized by the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning – University of Lisbon, and the International Planning History Soci
Álbum cartográfico de Cabo Verde. Comissão de cartografia, 1883–1936/Mindelo. Património urbano e arquitectónico
[Cartographic Album of Cape Verde. Cartography Commission, 1883–1936] Maria E. Santos and Joao C. Garcia, Praia, Cape Verde, Instituto de Investigacao e do Patrimonio Culturais, 2010, 217 pp. [Mind
Online Research Methods in Urban and Planning Studies: Design and Outcomes
The recent surge in interest in both mobile and visual methodologies reflects an increasing awareness of mobility and visualization in shaping our social worlds. The ‘mobilities turn’ in social science draws attention to the significance of a range of mobilities, from everyday to global. In tandem, visualization of virtual and lived spatial and social contexts is increasingly central to everyday lives and wider social processes. Both mobile and v…
Policy and Evidence in a Partisan Age: The Great Disconnect – By Paul Gary Wyckoff
Urban planning in Sub-Saharan Africa: A new role in the urban transition
How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America , by Carl Abbott
Protected Areas and Regional Development in Europe: Towards a new model for the 21st Century ‐ Edited by Ingo Mose
The Permeability of Urban Cultures
Reinventing Local and Metropolitan Government
Governing Lisbon: Evolving Forms of City Governance
For Lisbon, a dominant national capital and increasingly internationalized city, the last 30 years have witnessed a period of dramatic growth, modernization and dynamism. As the socioeconomic landscape has changed, so too has the political and institutional one, with a significant evolution in the nature of systems of governance to manage, respond to and lead the city through this period of intense transition. Whilst increased global and particul…
Urban Utopias In The Twentieth Century
Governing Metropolitan Lisbon: A tale of fragmented urban governance
Regional Development Agencies in Portugal: Recent Development and Future Challenges
This article considers the result of a recently completed programme to create Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) within Portugal. The first part of the article examines the forces leading to the creation of RDAs in Portugal and the particularities of the process employed. The second part turns to consider the considerable challenges that these fledgling RDAs now face if they are to develop a strategic role promoting regional economic developmen…
Governing Lisbon: Evolving Forms of City Governance
For Lisbon, a dominant national capital and increasingly internationalized city, the last 30 years have witnessed a period of dramatic growth, modernization and dynamism. As the socioeconomic landscape has changed, so too has the political and institutional one, with a significant evolution in the nature of systems of governance to manage, respond to and lead the city through this period of intense transition. Whilst increased global and particul…
Urban planning in Sub-Saharan Africa: A new role in the urban transition
Regional Development Agencies in Portugal: Recent Development and Future Challenges
This article considers the result of a recently completed programme to create Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) within Portugal. The first part of the article examines the forces leading to the creation of RDAs in Portugal and the particularities of the process employed. The second part turns to consider the considerable challenges that these fledgling RDAs now face if they are to develop a strategic role promoting regional economic developmen…
On planting and planning. The making of British colonial cities
The second edition of On Planting and Planning. The Making of British Colonial Cities, updated with new information, and the re-edition of the short account of the planning of Lusaka – Lusaka: The
Governing Metropolitan Lisbon: A tale of fragmented urban governance
Regional Development Agencies in Portugal: Recent Development and Future Challenges
This article considers the result of a recently completed programme to create Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) within Portugal. The first part of the article examines the forces leading to the creation of RDAs in Portugal and the particularities of the process employed. The second part turns to consider the considerable challenges that these fledgling RDAs now face if they are to develop a strategic role promoting regional economic developmen…
Governing Metropolitan Lisbon: A tale of fragmented urban governance
Urban Utopias In The Twentieth Century
Governing Lisbon: Evolving Forms of City Governance
For Lisbon, a dominant national capital and increasingly internationalized city, the last 30 years have witnessed a period of dramatic growth, modernization and dynamism. As the socioeconomic landscape has changed, so too has the political and institutional one, with a significant evolution in the nature of systems of governance to manage, respond to and lead the city through this period of intense transition. Whilst increased global and particul…
Reinventing Local and Metropolitan Government
Protected Areas and Regional Development in Europe: Towards a new model for the 21st Century ‐ Edited by Ingo Mose
The Permeability of Urban Cultures
How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America , by Carl Abbott
Online Research Methods in Urban and Planning Studies: Design and Outcomes
The recent surge in interest in both mobile and visual methodologies reflects an increasing awareness of mobility and visualization in shaping our social worlds. The ‘mobilities turn’ in social science draws attention to the significance of a range of mobilities, from everyday to global. In tandem, visualization of virtual and lived spatial and social contexts is increasingly central to everyday lives and wider social processes. Both mobile and v…
Policy and Evidence in a Partisan Age: The Great Disconnect – By Paul Gary Wyckoff
Urban planning in Sub-Saharan Africa: A new role in the urban transition
Álbum cartográfico de Cabo Verde. Comissão de cartografia, 1883–1936/Mindelo. Património urbano e arquitectónico
[Cartographic Album of Cape Verde. Cartography Commission, 1883–1936] Maria E. Santos and Joao C. Garcia, Praia, Cape Verde, Instituto de Investigacao e do Patrimonio Culturais, 2010, 217 pp. [Mind
Sustainable Development and Subnational Governments: Policy-making and Multi-level Interactions
Sustainable Development and Subnational Governments: Policy-making and Multi-level Interactions." Regional & Federal Studies, 24(4), pp. 530–531
Garden cities and colonial planning: Transnationality and urban ideas in Africa and Palestine
The book Garden Cities and Colonial Planning, edited by Liora Bigon and Yossi Katz, discusses the transmission, diffusion and modification of the ‘garden city’ planning paradigm in Africa and in Pa
Colonial and postcolonial urban planning in Africa’, International Planning History Society and Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 5–6 September 2013
The conference ‘Colonial and Postcolonial Urban Planning in Africa’, organized by the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning – University of Lisbon, and the International Planning History Soci
Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial and Post-Colonial Planning Cultures
On planting and planning. The making of British colonial cities
The second edition of On Planting and Planning. The Making of British Colonial Cities, updated with new information, and the re-edition of the short account of the planning of Lusaka – Lusaka: The
Fiscal Austerity and Innovation in Local Governance in Europe
Contents: Preface Introduction, Carlos Nunes Silva and Jan BuAiek. Part I: Local self-government finance in Slovakia during the 2008-11 crisis, Jan BuAiek and Andrej Sopkuliak The economic adjustment program impact on local government reform in Portugal, Carlos Nunes Silva Public services in European countries: between public/municipal and private sector provision - and reverse?, Hellmut Wollmann. Part II: The role of local governance in strength…
Urban Planning in North Africa
Urban Planning in Lusophone African Countries
The Prenda District in Luanda: Building on Top of the Colonial City
The literature on colonial urban planning in Africa shows how planning models and tools developed in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were extensively used in the African colonies by all European colonial empires (Silva, 2015). Despite the radically different challenges urban planning now faces in Africa, in particular those associated with urban transition (UN, 2014), the globalization of economic relations (Briggs and Yeboah, 20…
Paleontology and Environmental Justice: Making Connections Through Political Ecology
Far from studying only beings from the past, Paleontology is a current science which can situate human existence in the context of the global environmental crisis before inequalities and socio-environmental conflicts which occur in Brazilian paleontological sites. Aiming to discuss possible connections between Paleontology and Environmental Justice, this essay arises from a survey on environmental conflicts existing in the paleontological sites i…
Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco
Paradigmaváltások a helyi és városi kormányzásban: Szerkesztői bevezető a tematikus számhoz
African urban planning histories
Africa is undergoing major demographic changes, with much of this occurring in urban areas. Projections indicate that the urban population will reach 1.4 billion by the mid-twenty-first century.1 T
Geography (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Economic geography (7 works) · African history and culture studies (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · History (6 works) · Environmental planning (5 works)