Jose Pedro Reis

Jose Pedro Reis
University of Cambridge | Cam · Department of Land Economy

Master in Civil Engineering - Urban Planing

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November 2015 - present
University of Cambridge
Position
  • Supervisor (teaching assistant)
Description
  • Course: Urban and Environmental Planning I Supervised students of the MPhil degree in Planning, Growth and Regeneration (1 hour supervisions, twice a term, 25 students in small groups). Included lecturing, critical discussion and essay marking.
September 2012 - December 2015
University of Cambridge
Position
  • Supervisor (teaching assistant)
Description
  • Course: Planning Policy and Practice Supervised 3rd year students in the Land Economy Tripos (U. Cambridge). Taught 60 students each year, twice a term in 1 hour supervisions, including lecturing in small groups, critical discussion and essay marking.
September 2011 - present
University of Cambridge
Position
  • PhD Student
Description
  • Thesis title: 'The patterns and processes of growing and shrinking cities. An emphasis on metrics'. Supervisor: Dr. Elisabete Silva; co-supervisor: Prof. Paulo Pinho (Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto).
Education
September 2011 - September 2015
University of Cambridge
Field of study
  • Land Economy
September 2004 - September 2009
University of Porto
Field of study
  • Civil Engineering - Urban Planning

Publications

Publications (10)
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In a time of data science, online crowdsourced data and advanced data analytics would be a waste of resources and knowledge if these tools wouldn’t assist urban planning. This paper uses sentiment analysis to understand policy debates’ present in online media in a re-urbanized city and discusses how these tools and new datasets can help planners an...
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Spatial metrics are quantitative measures for evaluating the physical characteristics of geographical features, such as urban settlements and structures (Reis, 2015 ; Reis et al., 2015). Just like other quantitative methods of spatial analysis, spatial metrics have garnered a growing interest of international research during the past two decades (C...
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This article reviews existing literature on spatial metrics, presenting a portfolio of metrics addressing the spatial patterns of growing and shrinking cities and discussing their potential and limitations. A wide and diverse set of spatial metrics was found. While these metrics address most of the identified spatial patterns of urban growth, spati...
Book
Despite extensive efforts to understand the overall effect of urban structure on the current patterns of urban mobility, we are still far from a consensual perspective on this complex matter. To help build agreement on the factors influencing travel behaviour, this book discusses the influence of alternative urban structures on sustainable mobility...
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Urban passenger mobility has undergone significant changes over the past few decades with travel patterns becoming increasingly complex and difficult to predict and manage. From the variety of constraints and motivations influencing travel behaviour, land use and transport systems are believed to offer the baseline exogenous conditions steering tra...

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