• Urban Development

• CILITUR_Cidades Litorâneas e Turismo; Coordenadora: Profa. Dra. Cristina Araujo
• Conservação da Arquitetura Moderna; Coordenador: Prof. Dr. Luiz Amorim
• Estudos de Urbanismo e do Patrimônio Cultural; Coordenadora: Profa. Dra. Virgínia Pontual
• GEMFI - Grupo de Estudo sobre o Mercado Fundiário e Imobiliário; Coordenadora: Prof. Dra. Norma Lacerda
• Jardins de Burle Marx; Coordenadores: Profa. Dra. Ana Rita Sá Carneiro e Dr. Ricardo Bezerra
• MOBIS - Laboratório de Estudos Urbanos e Política da Mobilidade; Coordenador: Prof. Dr. Sérgio Benício
• Modelagem da Informação do Ambiente Construído; Coordenador: Prof. Dr. Max Andrade
• Morfologia da Arquitetura e do Urbanismo; Coordenador: Prof. Dr. Luiz Amorim
• NUSARQ - Núcleo de Estudos da Subjetividade na Arquitetura; Coordenadora: Prof.ª Lúcia Leitão
• Observatório Pernambucano de Políticas Públicas e Práticas Socioambientais; Coordenadora: Profa. Dra. Maria Ângela de Almeida Souza
• SOPAPO - Sociedade Espaço e Política; Coordenadora: Profa. Dra. Cristina Araujo

1. Architecture and urbanism

This research line  studies the morphology of the city and buildings, including physical and social structures. It incorporates studies on the formative aspects of urban space, morphological studies, spatial syntax, theory and history of architecture and urbanism, analysis/assessment of urban space and design, and research pertaining to its influence on the group of users and individuals.

Related research groups:

Architecture in the Brazilian Northeast (link)

Coordinator: Guilah Naslavsky

 

INCITi - Research and Innovation for cities (link)

Coordinator: Circe Monteiro

 

LATTICE - Laboratory for Investigative Technologies of the City (link)

Coordinator: Circe Monteiro

 

LA2 - Morphology of Architecture and Urbanism (link)

Coordinator: Luiz Manuel do Eirado Amorim

 

LIA - Laboratory for Studying Space in Architecture (link)

Coordinator: Maria de Jesus Britto Leite

 

NUSARQ - Center for Subjectivity Studies in Architecture (link)

Coordinator: Lúcia Leitão

 

2. Integrated conservation

This line of research  discusses concepts and practices related to sustainable development and integrated conservation. It examines historical, material and immaterial dimensions that constitute the city and study the natural and built  heritage including the urban landscape and public spaces. It adopts methods, techniques and models such as: historical analysis, assessment and analysis of the environment and landscape; management model for the conservation of urban and peri-urban environmental structures; scenario building techniques, techniques for impact assessment; the model of negotiations between social actors and techniques for monitoring and control.

Related research groups:

GEMFI - Study Group on the Land and Real Estate Market (link)

Coordinator: Norma Lacerda

 

Jardins de Burle Marx (link)

Coordinator: Ana Rita Sá Carneiro

 

LEPUR - Laboratory of Urban and Peri-urban Studies (link)

Coordinator: Fátima Furtado

 

LUP - Urbanism and Cultural Heritage Laboratory (link)

Coordinator: Virgínia Pontual

 

MICH - Real Estate Market in Historical Districts (link)

Coordinator: Norma Lacerda

 

3. Planning and management

This line of research covers issues related to urban planning and management based on these approaches: i) approaches pertaining to the globalization processes and the productive and financial restructuring of the world economy: cities in global networks and cities; ii) new instruments for political and administrative decentralization in the planning and management of cities; iii) evaluation of the limits and possibilities of planning, management and urban governance models; (iv) urban infrastructures, socio-technical networks and mobility and accessibility in urban transport.

Related research groups:

LEP - Laboratory for Space and Policy Studies (link)

Coordinator: Cristina Araújo

 

NUGEPP - Center for Studies in Urban Management and Public Policies (link)

Coordinator: Suely Maria Ribeiro Leal

 

PPGEO - The Pernambuco Observatory of public policies and socio-environmental practices (link)

Coordinator: Ângela Souza