Submitted by laborate on Thu, 20/10/2011 - 19:40 GMT.
Researchers Vasco André Barbosa and Andrés García Lamparte
have participated from 11th to 13th of October in the 7th
edition of the Congress on Virtual Cities and Territories,
which took place in Lisbon (Portugal), with the communications
entitled "The evolution of land law in rural settlement
areas in Galicia, Spain" and "Analysis of the evolution
of small urban areas using cluster analysis and logistic
regression".
This congress has been celebrated since the year 2005 and
serves as a forum to deal with issues related with the application
of new technologies to the fields of architecture, urbanism
and planning. This year’s edition took place at the Nova University of Lisbon
and has been organized by the Research Center on Geography
and Regional Planning of this university in collaboration
with the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Coimbra.
170 participants of 30 different nationalities attended
this edition and important personalities in this research
area participated as key note speakers; such as Michael Batty,
the director of the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis of the University College of London
and Professor Joseph Ferreira
of the Department of Unrban Studies and Planning of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among others.