Team Details

Silvia Spolaor

Coordinator

Silvia Spolaor is a postdoctoral researcher at CITTA-FEUP, working on the JUST STREETS project. She is a Brazilian architect with a PhD in Spatial Planning from CITTA-FEUP and an MSc in Urban Planning and Policy Design (POLIMI). Her main research interests include urban morphology, informal settlements, Southern urban theory, public participation, and methods and theories that bridge academic knowledge with planning practice and architectural design. In her research, she focuses on understanding how popular knowledge—shaped by social, economic, and cultural factors—influences the physical form of cities and how this comprehension can foster more inclusive planning strategies. Her key skills include qualitative spatial analysis, particularly using historical-geographical and process-typological approaches, along with mapping, to study the diachronic development and transformation of urban form.