CURRICULUM
VITAE
NAME: Jorge Manuel Barbosa Gaspar
DATE OF
BIRTH: 14th May 1942
ACADEMIC
AND SCIENTIFIC DEGREES
Degree in Geography, University of Lisbon, 1965.
Post-graduation in Regional Analysis, University of
Lund, Sweden, 1967.
Ph.D., University of Lisbon, 1972.
Honoris
Causa in Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, University of León, 1995.
Honoris
Causa in Faculté de Sciences Économiques et Sociales, University of Geneva,
2001.
PROFESSIONAL
CAREER
Lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture, 1965-1973.
Invited professor in the post graduation courses, in
the Technical University of Lisbon (T.U.L), since 1972.
Professor, Geography and Planning, University of
Lisbon, since 1973.
Professor, Department of Civil Engeneering and
Architecture (T.U.L.), 1984‑2000.
Consultant in the field of urban and regional planning
on various private and public projects.
Director of CEDRU (Centro de Estudos e Desenvolvimento
Regional e Urbano, Lda).
Chief planner of the Regional Land Management Plan for
the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon, for the Lisbon and Tagus Valley Regional
Coordinating Commission, 1990/93.
Coordinator of one of the 4 areas of study of the RURE
programme, European Science Foundation: the productive system and institutional
changes, 1990‑1994.
Member of the Commission of EC Community Support
Framework for Portugal, of the General Directorate of the Evaluation and
Follow-up of the C.S.F., 1991/94.
General Coordinator of the Study of Analysis and
Prospects of Regional Development for the Directorate General of Regional
Development, 1992/93.
General Co-ordinator of the "Study and Strategic Plan
for the Preservation of the Architectural and Urban Heritage of Lisbon, linked
to economic and social development - VALIS", elaborated by CEDRU, for the
DG XVI of the Commission of the European Communities - 1st phase, 1989/90; 2nd
phase, 1991/92; 3rd phase, 1992/93.
General Coordinator of the Ex-ante evaluation of the Portuguese Regional Development Plan
(1994/99).
Director of the Centre of Geographic Studies,
University of Lisbon, since 1995.
Member of the Editorial Advisory Committee or equivalent of:
L'Espace Geographique (France); Sports Place (USA); Iberian Studies (UK);
Ciência Política (Portugal); Finisterra (Portugal); Geografisk Annaler
(Sweden); Polígonos (Spain); Scottish Geographical Journal (UK); Progress in
Human Geography (UK), until 1998.
Member of the Academia
Europaea. Associate Correspondent of the Lisbon Science Academy.
Consultant in the field of urban and regional planning
on various private and public projects.
Member of the Coordinating Committee of the Metropolis
Portugal Group, since 1998.
Coordinator of the Portuguese Report for URBAN, EU
Programme, 2000‑2001.
Member of the Academia
Europaea.
PUBLICATIONS
Has published fifteen books and more
than one hundred articles and research reports, besides participating in
encyclopaedia and newspapers. The most relevant: . Protected Landscapes., Metropolitan Area of Lisbon, Lisbon, 2000
(author of the text); . Economic Restructuring and New Urban Form. in Finisterra, XXXIV, 67‑68, 1999,
pp.131‑152; . Le Portugal:
changements récents et place dans le Sud‑Ouest de l´Europe. in Sud‑Ouest
Européen, nº. 5, 1999, pp. 61-74; . Lissabon - Tor zum Südwesten Europas. in
Geographische Rundschau, nº. 10, 1999, pp. 548‑554 (with Eduardo Brito
Henriques and Mário Vale); A Localização do Novo Aeroporto Internacional no
Contexto do Desenvolvimento do Território, Central Region Co-ordinating
Commission, Coimbra, 1999; . Economic restructuring, social
re-composition and recent urban changes in Portugal. in GeoJournal no.
46 (with Eduardo Brito Heriques and Mário Vale), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp.
63‑76, 1998; . Lisbonne et l´Exposition 1998. in Les débats
sur la ville 1 sous la direction de Francis Cuillier, Bordeaux, éditions confluences,
pp. 71-81, 1998; . Lisbon: Metropolis between centre and periphery.
in Jensen‑Butler, Shachar and van Weesep, European Cities in Competition,
Aldershot, Averbury, 1997, pp. 147‑178; "New Forms of Transport and Communication: New
Patterns of Disadvantage" in Hadjamichalis, C.; Sadler, D., (Ed. Lit.), On
and around the margins of a New Europe, Averbury, London, 1994; The Portuguese
Regions, Direcção-Geral do Desenvolvimento Regional, Lisbon, 1993;
"Geografia e Ordenamento do Território - dos Paradigmas aos Novos
Mapas", in Colóquio/Ciências, nº. 13, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian,
Lisbon, 1993; Southern
Portugal in the 1990s. A European Investment Region (with Allan Williams),
Economist Intelligence Unit, London, 1992; North and Central Portugal in the
1990s. A European Investment Region (with Allan Williams),
Economist Intelligence Unit, London, 1991; Portugal nos próximos 20 anos,
2º. vol.: A Ocupação e a Organização do Espaço (with D. Abreu, J. Ferrão
and C. J. Butler), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 1989; Portugal
nos próximos 20 anos, 1º. vol.: A Ocupação e a Organização do
Território - análise retrospectiva e tendências evolutivas,
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 1987; Portugal em Mapas e Números,
Livros Horizonte, Lisbon, 1979; 2ª. ed., 1980.
