CURRICULUM VITAE

 

 

NAME: Jorge Manuel Barbosa Gaspar

DATE OF BIRTH: 14^th 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.