Duarte Marques Nunes

• PhD in Architecture
• PhD at University of Lisbon

Sustainable Development has deeply influenced urban planning over the last decades. However, the stresses contemporary cities face emphasize the need for a more holistic approach, which addresses change, promoting a ‘stronger sustainability’ within Knowledge Societies. ‘Resilience’ can become an important standard for such holistic approach. This a...

Urban Regeneration and Resilience have become crucial tools for Sustainable Urban Development. However, although Built Environment Sustainability Assessment Systems have driven innovation regarding such development vision, they have not focused on the former issues. This investigation advances the rethinking of such assessment systems, in the light...

Purpose: Although Knowledge-based Urban Development has progressed substantially lately, scholars have suggested the need for holistic and unified approaches to its practical formulation. This paper discusses it within the practical spectrum of Urban Regeneration, focusing on a ‘strong urban sustainability’ perspective. Scope: The paper makes the...

Though Universities have long been special places, the emergence of the Knowledge Economy brought back their missions to centre stage. More than ever they are viewed as socioeconomic progress sources and are encouraged to develop innovative solutions to Urban Regeneration. This investigation addresses the role of the University in modern urban deve...

Over the past two decades Clusters have emerged as a favored economic development concept, developed to foster local and regional growth, innovation and knowledge creation. As Countries or regions exhibit epistemic landscapes of knowledge assets, in a highly competitive global economy, the development of sustainable, innovative responses is now vit...

Over the last five decades, resilience has received ever greater interest from academics and practitioners and has been applied in different scientific areas, such as engineering, environmental science or medicine. In particular, resilience has become a fundamental concept in contemporary urban development, planning and management (UDPM). Despite...

Over the last decades 'resilience' has particularly arisen as an attractive perspective with respect to cities. As cities continue to expand, their susceptibility to uncertainties and new challenges, such as climate change, has increased, rendering 'urban resilience' an increasingly favoured concept in the realm of Urban Development, Planning and M...

The myriad of existing models and tools put forward to tackle Urban Sustainability, Knowledge Development and Management, and Urban Regeneration are unable to produce unique, cross-thematic, and holistic instruments to address the current and future challenges of urban environments. Contemporary urban challenges are thus calling for a long-range re...

Urban planning has been greatly influenced lately by the Sustainable Development (SD) debate. Yet, the effective application progress of SD has emphasized the need to promote a ‘strong sustainability’. Moreover, scientific literature has suggested that ‘Resilience’ enhancement, within Urban Regeneration (UR) processes, can be an effective means for...

Sustainable Development has deeply influenced urban planning over the last decades. However, the stresses contemporary cities face emphasize the need for a more holistic approach, which addresses change, promoting a ‘stronger sustainability’ within Knowledge Societies. ‘Resilience’ can become an important standard for such holistic approach. This a...

Urban Regeneration and Resilience have become crucial tools for Sustainable Urban Development. However, although Built Environment Sustainability Assessment Systems have driven innovation regarding such development vision, they have not focused on the former issues. This investigation advances the rethinking of such assessment systems, in the light...

Purpose: Although Knowledge-based Urban Development has progressed substantially lately, scholars have suggested the need for holistic and unified approaches to its practical formulation. This paper discusses it within the practical spectrum of Urban Regeneration, focusing on a ‘strong urban sustainability’ perspective. Scope: The paper makes the...

Contemporary Urban Regeneration (UR), as a comprehensive and integrated vision and action that looks for the long-lasting socioeconomic and environmental dynamism of the target areas, can offer the possibility to regenerate cities while simultaneously tackling sustainable urban development (SUD). This investigation explores achieving higher levels...

Though Universities have long been special places, the emergence of the Knowledge Economy brought back their missions to centre stage. More than ever they are viewed as socioeconomic progress sources and are encouraged to develop innovative solutions to Urban Regeneration. This investigation addresses the role of the University in modern urban deve...

Contemporary Urban Regeneration (UR), as a comprehensive and integrated vision and action that looks for the long-lasting socioeconomic and environmental dynamism of the target areas, can offer the possibility to regenerate cities while simultaneously tackling sustainable urban development (SUD). This investigation explores achieving higher levels...

Clusters have emerged as a favored urban development concept. Within Cluster Theory, location has long been defined as the dominant issue. Additionally, in a society reorganized around knowledge, Knowledge Clusters (KCRs) have been gradually stressed as strategic agents within wider networks, further highlighting the importance of location. This pa...

Clusters have emerged as a favored urban development concept. Within Cluster Theory, location has long been defined as the dominant issue. Additionally, in a society reorganized around knowledge, Knowledge Clusters (KCRs) have been gradually stressed as strategic agents within wider networks, further highlighting the importance of location. This pa...

Over the past two decades Clusters have emerged as a favored economic development concept, developed to foster local and regional growth, innovation and knowledge creation. As Countries or regions exhibit epistemic landscapes of knowledge assets, in a highly competitive global economy, the development of sustainable, innovative responses is now vit...

Clusters have emerged as a favored urban development concept. Within Cluster Theory, location has long been defined as the dominant issue. Additionally, in a society reorganized around knowledge, Knowledge Clusters (KCRs) have been gradually stressed as strategic agents within wider networks, further highlighting the importance of location. This pa...

Recent discussions have highlighted the need to rethink the adjustment of urban environments to changing everyday needs, enabling a shift towards a new Urban Order. Assuming that urban interventions designed to address socioeconomic /environmental/morphological patterns, predispose the possibility of a new Urban Order, this article explores the rol...

Recent discussions have highlighted the need to rethink the adjustment of urban environments to changing everyday needs, enabling a shift towards a new Urban Order. Assuming that urban interventions designed to address socioeconomic /environmental/morphological patterns, predispose the possibility of a new Urban Order, this article explores the rol...

Although human societies have always depended on maintaining the Critical Balance among three key variables, namely the Population, the Natural Resources and the Environment, until the mid-80’s, the Environment was seen as a source of resources that should be preserved, but to which was not assigned a particular value. However, a trigger of several...