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Dr Elisabete A. Silva

Dr Elisabete A. Silva

Position(s):

  • Dr Elisabete A. Silva is a University Lecturer in Planning in the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.
  • Dr. Silva is a lecturer (course co-ordinator) in "Urban and Environmental Planning I" (PGR01) and "Planning Policy and Practice" (Paper 14).
  • Dr. Silva is co-ordinator of the PhD Programme.
  • Dr. Silva holds a Ph.D. in Regional Planning (University of Massachusetts, USA), a Post Doctorate in Transportation (IST, UTL), a Master in Urban and Regional Planning (FCT, UNL), a MA (University of Cambridge). A first line management award (level 3 & 5) (ILM University of Cambridge), and a BA in Geography and Planning (UL, Portugal).
  • Prior to taking up the appointment Elisabete was a affiliated Lecturer at the School of Engineering of the Catholic University (FEUCP, Portugal), Portugal. She was researcher and invited researcher of the American "National Centre for Geographical Information and Analysis" (NCGIA, USA), University of Massachusetts (OGIA and METLAND, USA), Lisbon Technical University (IST, UTL) and of the National Centre for Geographical Information (CNIG, Portugal).

Other posts:

  • Editorial Board - Journal of Urban Design and Planning
  • Editorial Board – Dialogues – A Routledge/Taylor and Francis/GPEN Urban and Regional Planning Series
  • Fellow of Robinson College (University of Cambridge)
  • Chair of AESOP "Best Paper Price Committee", nominates the best annual paper published amongst 48 international peer review journals
  • Chair of the AESOP NTTG research working group
  • Fellow of the Royal institution of Charter Surveyors (FRICS)
  • Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI)

Contact information:

Telephone: +44 (0)1223 (3)37141
Email: es424

Research interests:

  • Dr. Silva has a research track record of more than 15 years, both at the public and private sector. Her research interests are centred on the application of new technologies to spatial planning in particular city and metropolitan dynamic modelling through time.  
  • Land Use, Transportation and Metropolitan Planning
  • Regional Planning, Integrated Planning (Urban/Transportation/Environmental Planning)
  • Geographic Information Systems and Planning Support Systems, AI Models (particularly CA models).
  • For new PhD applicants: Dr Silva only considers applications that include GIS, CA/ABM or new technology in a planning context.

Publications:

EDITED BOOKS

  • 2010 A Planner’s Encounter with Complexity, (with G. de Roo) Ashgate Publishers Ltd, Aldershot (UK). 337 pages. ISBN: 978-1-4094-0265-7.  http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409402657 
  • 2003 1st Conference of the Land Management Engineering: Plan-Change-Manage (With J. Ferreira, JB e Silva, E.A. Silva and  J. M. Esteves) (in Portuguese) . Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) & Núcleo de Estudos dos alunos de Território (NET), Lisboa. 43 pages ISBN: 972-8152-76-0

AUTHORED BOOKS:

  • 2009 Urban revitalization in traditional neighbourhoods in Chinese cities. (with N. Wu and N. Song)  RICS, London. 54 pages. ISBN: 978-1-84219-535-2 Free for download at: http://www.rics.org/site/scripts/download_info.aspx?fileID=5838&categoryID
  • 2002 Beyond Modelling in Environmental and Urban Planning. Planning Support Systems and the case study of Lisbon and Porto Metropolitan Areas, Portugal. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. 293 pages. [The Library of Congress, United States Copyright Office] ISBN: TX 5–644-304
  • 1999 The structuring effects of the transportation infrastructures in the land use change (in Portuguese) , Patrimónia (Ed.), Lisboa. 188 pages ISBN: 972-744-038-X

FULL PAPERS PUBLISHED IN PEER REVIEW JOURNALS

  • 2012 Surveying Models in Urban Land Studies. (with N. Wu) Journal of Planning Literature.27 ( ): 1-14
  • 2012 Land Reform and Regional Planning: a proposal state-market. (with S. Souza)  IPEA-Journal of Planning and Public Policy, 38, (June): 25.
  • 2011 Data, models and land planning – Europe’s data-led policy. Journal of Urban Design and Planning. 164(4): 195-196
  • 2011 Li Xiaopeng, Elisabete A.Sliva, Fu Shuaixiong, An application of the hedonic price model: the case of Beijing (in Chinese), China Market, 2011(10), pp. 58-63
  • 2011 Planning land reform on a regional scale: a case study from Brazil. (with S. Souza)  Planning Theory and Practice, 12(4): 246-265. ISSN: 0885-4122
  • 2010 Developmental perspectives of seemingly opposing land reform views: an unplanned gap in the literature. (with S. Souza)  Regional Studies Regional Studies. 45, (6): 857-868 ISSN: 1360-0591.
  • 2010 Artificial intelligence solutions for Urban Land Dynamics: A Review (with N. Wu). Journal of Planning Literature. 2010 24: 246-265.
  • 2009 A Traffic Analysis Zone Definition: A New Methodology and Algorithm. (with LM Martinez and JM Viegas).  Transportation. 36 (5): 581.  0049-4488 (Print) 1572-9435 (Online). DOI: 10.1007/s11116-009-9214-z
  • 2009 Artificial Intelligence and ‘waves of complexity’ for urban dynamics. (with N.Wu) In: WSEAS. Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Engineering and Databases pp. 459-469. ISBN:978-960-474-051-2 and  ISSN:1790-5109
  • 2009 (online 2008, print 2009), Modifiable Areal Unit Problem Effects on Traffic Analysis Zones Delineation. (with LM Martinez and JM Viegas) Environment and Planning B – Planning and Design. 36(4): 625-643 ( advance online publication, doi:10.1068/b34033. ISSN: 0265-8135 (print) ISSN: 1472-3417 (electronic - http://www.envplan.com/abstract.cgi?id=b34033).
  • 2008 Strategies for Landscape Ecology in Metropolitan Planning: Applications Using Cellular Automata Models. (with J. Wileden, J. and J. Ahern), Progress in Planning, 70(4):133-177 - ISSN: 0305-9006
  • 2007 Zoning Decisions in Transport Planning and their Impact on the Precision of Results. (with LM Martinez and JM Viegas)Transportation Research Record, 1994 (08):  58-65 - ISSN: 0361-1981
  • 2006 Transportation and the Portuguese development during the past 30 years (In Portuguese - Sociedade e Território), Society and Territory, 40: 52-62 - ISSN: 36316/90
  • 2005 Complexity, Emergence and Cellular Urban Models: Lessons Learned from Appling SLEUTH to two Portuguese Cities. (with  K. Clarke) European Planning Studies, 13 (1): 93-115 – ISSN: 0965-4313
  • 2004 A methodological approach in order to support decision makers when defining Mobility and Transportation Politics [bilingual version, Estudos Regionais), (with M. Gaspar and J. Viegas), Portuguese Journal of Regional Studies , 6: 109-127 – ISSN: 1645-586X
  • 2004 Full Paper: Scenarios of Urban Expansion in the Porto Metropolitan Area. Urbanism Review (Revista Urbanismo), 5: 19-29 – ISSN 0874-937X
  • 2004 The DNA of our Regions: artificial intelligence in regional planning. Futures, 36(10):1077-1094. – ISSN: 0016-3287
  • 2002 Calibration of the SLEUTH Urban Growth Model for Lisbon and Porto, Portugal. Computers, (with K. Clarke) Environment and Urban Systems, 26 (6): 525-552  - ISSN: 0198-9715
  • 2002 Are the Regional and the Local Foregathering? Widening the Gap between the New Regionalists and the Community Builders. European Planning Studies, 10 (4):529-535 - ISSN: 0965-4313
  • 2002 Indecision Factors when planning for land use change. European Planning Studies, 10 (3): 335-358 - ISSN: 0965-4313
  • 2002 Scenarios of Urban Growth in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. Journal of Regional Studies (In Portuguese: Revista de Estudos Regionais), 5: 23-41 - ISSN 0874-8675
  • 2001 Environmental and Urban Models. The planning of different scenarios for two Metropolitan Areas. (Landskabsokologiske Skrifter nr. 16) Landscape Ecological Papers, 16: 49-56 –– ISSN: 1395-3710

BOOK CHAPTERS

  • 2011 Cellular Automata Models and Agent Base Models for urban studies: from pixels, to cells, to Hexa-Dpi’s. In: Urban Remote Sensing: Monitoring, Synthesis and Modeling in the Urban Environment. Edited by: Dr. XiaojunYang. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 323-345. ISBN: 978-0-470-74958-6
  • 2010 Waves of complexity. Theory, models, and practice. In: Roo, Gert de, and Elisabete A. Silva (2010), A Planner’s Encounter with Complexity, Ashgate Publishers Ltd, Aldershot (UK).  pp. 309-331.. ISBN: 978-1-4094-0265-7
  • 2010 Complexity and CA, and application to metropolitan areas.  In: Roo, Gert de, and Elisabete A. Silva (2010), A Planner’s Encounter with Complexity, Ashgate Publishers Ltd, Aldershot (UK).  pp..187-207. ISBN: 978-1-4094-0265-7
  • 2003 The CVCA Model: A Cellular Automaton Model of Landscape Ecological Strategies. European Simulation and Modelling Society - ESM 2003 (with J. Wileden and J. Ahern ),.  pp. 206-209. ISBN: 90-77381-04-X
  • 2001 The Geographic Factor in the Development of small internet applications of biodiversity (in Portuguese). VII Conferência Nacional sobre a Qualidade do Ambiente, Universidade de Aveiro. Universidade de Aveiro-DAO, Aveiro, pp. 496-511. ISBN: 972-789-026-1
  • 1997 Municipal Master Plans for the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (AML) A Regional Approach (with J. Machado), In: Environmental Challenges in an Expanding Urban World and the Role of Emerging Information Technologies, João Reis Machado & Jack Ahern (Editors), National Centre for Geographic Information, Lisbon, pp. 291-302. ISBN: 972-97406-0-7
  • 1997 Greenways Network for the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon (with J. Machado), In: Environmental Challenges in an Expanding Urban World and the Role of Emerging Information Technologies, João Reis Machado & Jack Ahern (Editors), National Centre for Geographic Information, Lisbon, pp. 281-289. ISBN: 972-97406-0-7

Current Ph.D. students

For new PhD applicants: Dr Silva only considers applications that include GIS, CA/ABM or new technology in a planning context.

Helin Liu
Sabrina Daud
Mandy Lau
Quian Wang
Jose Reis

Last updated 13 March, 2012