Vítor Oliveira
Biographic Data
| ID | 3992789 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vítor Oliveira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vítor |
| FAMILY NAME | Oliveira |
| SIGNATURE | OLIVEIRA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade do Porto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1757-4524 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exploring researcher-practitioner communication in Portuguese spatial planning
Planning research has been discussing the apparent gap between its advances and what is applied in practice. There is broad agreement that open communication is vital for bridging this divide, yet the most efficient methods to do so remain unclear. This paper addresses the gap by working with planning departments in Portugal to identify these methods – exposition, text and collaboration. While collaboration produced the strongest results, all met…
Isuf programme 2025–29
Over the next four years, our main goal is to make the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF) more international, diverse, relevant and professional
A democracia que habita o imaginário
O presente artigo investiga as concepções de democracia entre os brasileiros, evidenciando tensões entre o apoio declarado ao regime democrático e atitudes ambíguas ou até antidemocráticas. A análise foi feita através de dados quantitativos, utilizando dados da sétima onda do World Values Survey (2018), e qualitativos, a partir de grupos focais realizados entre 2023 e 2024. Os dados quantitativos apresentam que embora a maioria afirme valorizar a…
Resistance Training Improves Cognitive Function and Depression Without Changing BDNF Levels in People Living with HIV
Educação Especial Na Perspectiva Inclusiva
O presente artigo relata a experiência do curso de formação de professores “Educação Especial na Perspectiva Inclusiva: saberes necessários à prática educativa”, realizado pela Secretaria Municipal de Educação de São Luís de Montes Belos, Goiás. O estudo caracteriza-se como uma pesquisa empírica com abordagem qualitativa, utilizando métodos documentais e bibliográficos para a coleta e análise dos dados. A fundamentação teórica abrange os marcos l…
Conservation and change in planning practice
Balancing conservation and change of the physical form of cities is a key challenge for planning. Supported on a thorough understanding of the main socioeconomic and environmental needs and aspirations of a city and on the fundamental characteristics of its physical form, spatial planning should offer a framework to promote the conservation of structural physical elements while allowing change of less persistent elements. In many cases, planning …
Limites e contradições do progressismo latino-americano
.
The Association Between Objectively-Measured Physical Activity and Cognitive Functioning in Middle-Aged and Older People Living with HIV
The urban form of ancient Chinese capital cities
Chinese civilization is unique in terms of longevity, lasting from the late-third millennium BC to the twenty-first century, without interruption. Despite the recent interest on Chinese urban form, knowledge on the subject remains insufficient, lacking both a comprehensive framework and particular contributions on different aspects of its urban forms, agents, and processes of change. This paper addresses the second of these two challenges, contri…
Reports
Is the concept of urban metabolism useful for planning practice
In the last decades, the concept of urban metabolism has been a fundamental topic of the debate on cities. From the overall definition of the concept to the specific measurement of its different components, urban metabolism has been discussed in an increasing number of papers and books, particularly after the 2000s. While it is widely assumed that planning would benefit from the incorporation of the concept, there are few scientific outputs with …
Becoming an urban morphologist
This paper examines the origins underlying J. W. R. Whitehand’s emergence as an urban morphologist. Attention is paid to Whitehand’s early years, beginning with his initial life experiences, his BA and PhD theses at the University of Reading, and his innovative way of addressing settlements with a distinctive emphasis on buildings. His professional encounter with M. R. G. Conzen in Newcastle in the early 1960s exposed him to a teaching method in …
UR-Hesp
A scenario-based approach for assessing the energy performance of urban development pathways
Urban Morphology
Urban Morphology
Cities in History
Urban planners in Portugal in the middle of the twentieth century
This article describes the planning activity in Portugal in the middle of the twentieth century, notably the work of two exceptional planners, Etienne de Groër and Antão Almeida Garrett. The article moves from a first overview on the national context, to a focus on the two largest cities of Portugal, Lisbon, and Oporto. It was there that these two planners developed their most successful planning proposals. The planning activity of de Groër and G…
Bridging the gap between planning evaluation and programme evaluation
Despite the potential advantages of a closer link between planning evaluation and programme evaluation , both fields have been developed independently. This is mainly due to significant differences between them, particularly in terms of historical background, evaluation scope and contexts, the articulation between theory and practice, and the timings of evaluation. This article advocates bridging the gap between these two fields, and presents the…
Evaluation in Urban Planning
This article provides an overview on the current debate on evaluation in urban planning. An initial evaluation state of the art is presented in three parts: the evolution of evaluation theory and methods, the contemporary planning debate around different perspectives and paradigms, and the nature and extent of evaluation practice in planning. The second part of the article focuses on the growing emphasis on urban form issues in different planning…
Lisbon
The morphological dimension of municipal plans
In the last decade an interdisciplinary field has emerged from the convergence of three European schools of thought within urban morphology. This paper explores one of the research interests in this field, mainly developed by the British school, the analysis of the relationship between urban morphology and town planning. The incorporation of morphological criteria in the Plano Director Municipal (Local Land-Use Plan) for Oporto is assessed, with …
The morphological dimension of municipal plans
In the last decade an interdisciplinary field has emerged from the convergence of three European schools of thought within urban morphology. This paper explores one of the research interests in this field, mainly developed by the British school, the analysis of the relationship between urban morphology and town planning. The incorporation of morphological criteria in the Plano Director Municipal (Local Land-Use Plan) for Oporto is assessed, with …
UR-Hesp
Bridging the gap between planning evaluation and programme evaluation
Despite the potential advantages of a closer link between planning evaluation and programme evaluation , both fields have been developed independently. This is mainly due to significant differences between them, particularly in terms of historical background, evaluation scope and contexts, the articulation between theory and practice, and the timings of evaluation. This article advocates bridging the gap between these two fields, and presents the…
Lisbon
The morphological dimension of municipal plans
In the last decade an interdisciplinary field has emerged from the convergence of three European schools of thought within urban morphology. This paper explores one of the research interests in this field, mainly developed by the British school, the analysis of the relationship between urban morphology and town planning. The incorporation of morphological criteria in the Plano Director Municipal (Local Land-Use Plan) for Oporto is assessed, with …
Evaluation in Urban Planning
This article provides an overview on the current debate on evaluation in urban planning. An initial evaluation state of the art is presented in three parts: the evolution of evaluation theory and methods, the contemporary planning debate around different perspectives and paradigms, and the nature and extent of evaluation practice in planning. The second part of the article focuses on the growing emphasis on urban form issues in different planning…
Lisbon
Bridging the gap between planning evaluation and programme evaluation
Despite the potential advantages of a closer link between planning evaluation and programme evaluation , both fields have been developed independently. This is mainly due to significant differences between them, particularly in terms of historical background, evaluation scope and contexts, the articulation between theory and practice, and the timings of evaluation. This article advocates bridging the gap between these two fields, and presents the…
Urban planners in Portugal in the middle of the twentieth century
This article describes the planning activity in Portugal in the middle of the twentieth century, notably the work of two exceptional planners, Etienne de Groër and Antão Almeida Garrett. The article moves from a first overview on the national context, to a focus on the two largest cities of Portugal, Lisbon, and Oporto. It was there that these two planners developed their most successful planning proposals. The planning activity of de Groër and G…
Urban Morphology
Urban Morphology
Cities in History
A scenario-based approach for assessing the energy performance of urban development pathways
Becoming an urban morphologist
This paper examines the origins underlying J. W. R. Whitehand’s emergence as an urban morphologist. Attention is paid to Whitehand’s early years, beginning with his initial life experiences, his BA and PhD theses at the University of Reading, and his innovative way of addressing settlements with a distinctive emphasis on buildings. His professional encounter with M. R. G. Conzen in Newcastle in the early 1960s exposed him to a teaching method in …
UR-Hesp
Is the concept of urban metabolism useful for planning practice
In the last decades, the concept of urban metabolism has been a fundamental topic of the debate on cities. From the overall definition of the concept to the specific measurement of its different components, urban metabolism has been discussed in an increasing number of papers and books, particularly after the 2000s. While it is widely assumed that planning would benefit from the incorporation of the concept, there are few scientific outputs with …
Limites e contradições do progressismo latino-americano
.
The Association Between Objectively-Measured Physical Activity and Cognitive Functioning in Middle-Aged and Older People Living with HIV
The urban form of ancient Chinese capital cities
Chinese civilization is unique in terms of longevity, lasting from the late-third millennium BC to the twenty-first century, without interruption. Despite the recent interest on Chinese urban form, knowledge on the subject remains insufficient, lacking both a comprehensive framework and particular contributions on different aspects of its urban forms, agents, and processes of change. This paper addresses the second of these two challenges, contri…
Reports
Conservation and change in planning practice
Balancing conservation and change of the physical form of cities is a key challenge for planning. Supported on a thorough understanding of the main socioeconomic and environmental needs and aspirations of a city and on the fundamental characteristics of its physical form, spatial planning should offer a framework to promote the conservation of structural physical elements while allowing change of less persistent elements. In many cases, planning …
Educação Especial Na Perspectiva Inclusiva
O presente artigo relata a experiência do curso de formação de professores “Educação Especial na Perspectiva Inclusiva: saberes necessários à prática educativa”, realizado pela Secretaria Municipal de Educação de São Luís de Montes Belos, Goiás. O estudo caracteriza-se como uma pesquisa empírica com abordagem qualitativa, utilizando métodos documentais e bibliográficos para a coleta e análise dos dados. A fundamentação teórica abrange os marcos l…
A democracia que habita o imaginário
O presente artigo investiga as concepções de democracia entre os brasileiros, evidenciando tensões entre o apoio declarado ao regime democrático e atitudes ambíguas ou até antidemocráticas. A análise foi feita através de dados quantitativos, utilizando dados da sétima onda do World Values Survey (2018), e qualitativos, a partir de grupos focais realizados entre 2023 e 2024. Os dados quantitativos apresentam que embora a maioria afirme valorizar a…
Resistance Training Improves Cognitive Function and Depression Without Changing BDNF Levels in People Living with HIV
Exploring researcher-practitioner communication in Portuguese spatial planning
Planning research has been discussing the apparent gap between its advances and what is applied in practice. There is broad agreement that open communication is vital for bridging this divide, yet the most efficient methods to do so remain unclear. This paper addresses the gap by working with planning departments in Portugal to identify these methods – exposition, text and collaboration. While collaboration produced the strongest results, all met…
Isuf programme 2025–29
Over the next four years, our main goal is to make the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF) more international, diverse, relevant and professional
Geography (14 works) · Engineering (9 works) · Urban planning (9 works) · Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (8 works) · Civil engineering (7 works) · Environmental planning (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Business (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (5 works)