About
1. THE ORGANIZATION AND STAFF
1.1. SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL
| President | Staël de Alvarenga Pereira Costa | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais | (2026) |
| Vice-President | David Viana | Universidade Portucalense | (2026) |
| Councillors | Ana Claudia Cardoso | Universidade Federal do Pará | (2026) |
| Evandro Monteiro | Universidade Estadual de Campinas | (2026) | |
| Frederico de Holanda | Universidade de Brasilia | (2024) | |
| Teresa Heitor | Instituto Superior Técnico | (2024) | |
| Teresa Marat-Mendes | ISCTE-IUL | (2025) | |
| Vítor Oliveira | Universidade do Porto | (2026) |
(Dates in brackets denote ends of terms of service)
1.2. CONTACT
pnum@fe.up.pt
2. HISTORY
The following articles provide synthesis on the study of urban form in Portugal and Brazil and have been published in Urban Morphology, the journal of the International Seminar on Urban Form.
Costa S, Teixeira C (2014) 'The study of urban form in Brazil', Urban Morphology 18(2), 119-27. 
Oliveira, V.; Barbosa, M.; Pinho, P. (2011) 'The study of urban form in Portugal', Urban Morphology 15(1), 55-66
3. PROJECTS
3.1. THE STUDY OF URBAN FORM IN PORTUGAL
This is a book on the study of urban form in Portugal mainly developed by its founding members that has been published in 2015 by UPORTO Editorial. The first part of the book is an overview on Portuguese urban morphology, making evident the three disciplinary backgrounds that are more relevant in the national context: historical, geographical, and architectural. The second part focuses on a set of specific morphological approaches, including space syntax, cellular automata and agent based modeling. Finally, the third part of the book explores the relationships between the morphological analysis and the design of the contemporary city.
Oliveira V, Marat-Mendes T, Pinho P (eds) (2015) O estudo da forma urbana em Portugal, Edições UP, Porto.