PNUM: ten years later

Abstract

It has been ten years since I had the pleasure of presenting a proposal to the ISUF Council, in the Hamburg conference of 2010, to establish a Portuguese Network of Urban Morphology (PNUM). A paper published at the time, on the study of urban of urban form in Portugal, reported the development of many research projects mainly taken in isolation and also the lack of internationalization of Portuguese urban morphology (Oliveira et al., 2011). Since then, PNUM has expanded from a ‘Portuguese’ to a ‘Portuguese-language’ network, embracing Brazil, it has effectively contributed for the promotion of the study of urban form in the two countries, and it has strengthened the relation of Portuguese-language urban morphologists with members of ISUF and of other regional networks.