António Pais Antunes

António Pais Antunes is a Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He holds a Diploma in Civil Engineering from the University of Coimbra and a PhD in Applied Sciences, branch Spatial Planning, from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. He has been the Director of Planning of the Centro Region Development Agency in Portugal (1983-85), a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University (1997/98), an Invited Professor at EPF Lausanne (2009/10), and a Visiting Professor at MIT (2013/14). His teaching and research focus on Spatial Planning and Transportation Engineering. Up to now, he has supervised 21 PhD students and authored over 200 scientific publications, including 48 articles in peer-reviewed journals. António Pais Antunes currently acts as Director of CIEC - Civil Engineering Research Center, an R&D unit of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, and as Director of the Doctoral Program in Transportation Systems of the University of Coimbra.

Publications

Technologies for Urban and Spatial Planning: Virtual Cities and Territories
Technologies for Urban and Spatial Planning: Virtual Cities and Territories
Nuno Norte Pinto, José António Tenedório, António Pais Antunes, Josep Roca Cladera. © 2014. 349 pages.
Technological advancements have changed that way we think of traditional urban and spatial planning. The inclusion of conventional elements with modern technologies is allowing...