
Jose Pedro ReisUniversity of Cambridge | Cam · Department of Land Economy
Jose Pedro Reis
Master in Civil Engineering - Urban Planing
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Introduction
Additional affiliations
November 2015 - present
September 2012 - December 2015
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.
Education
September 2011 - September 2015
September 2004 - September 2009
Publications
Publications (10)
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...