Portuguese-language Network of Urban Morphology (PNUM): Report 2018/19

摘要

This report covers the ninth year of activity of the Portuguese-language Network of Urban Morphology (PNUM). After hosting the first conference of the network in 2011, and the Twenty-First Conference of the International Seminar on Urban Form in 2014, the Universidade do Porto was home to the Seventh Conference of PNUM. The event, held in the Faculty of Architecture of this university on 18-20 July 2018, included almost 200 presentations. Most participants came from Brazil and Portugal, but there were also representatives from Spain and Mozambique. In 2019, the eighth annual conference of PNUM will take place in Maringa on 21-23 August. Maringa, a new town founded in 1945 in southern Brazil, was planned according to formal garden-city principles (Meneguetti and Costa, 2015). It offers a stage for debating the complex relationships between urban form and nature. Five themes frame the organization of the conference: ecology in cities, systems of open spaces, urban growth, morphological patterns, and history and heritage. A record number of abstracts has been submitted (more than 500) and a large attendance at the conference is anticipated.