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Vítor Oliveira is the Secretary-General of the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF) and the President of the Portuguese-language Network of Urban Morphology (PNUM). He is Principal Researcher at the Research Centre for Territory Transports and Environment (CITTA / FEUP) and ‘Professor Auxiliar’ 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 Founding 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 40 papers in international peer-reviewed journals listed in Scopus or ISI. He has been working in different research projects supportedby national and international founding, 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 has published ‘Urban morphology. An introduction to the study of the physical form of cities’ (translated to Persian), 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 two years he has published ‘Teaching urban morphology’ and ‘JWR Whitehand and the historico-geographical approach to urban morphology’.

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