Urban Design
Sustainability and Contemporary Urbanism in Brazil, Focus: Journal of the City and Regional Planning Department (2009)
Designing a Residential Resort in Mexico: Third-Year Community Design Lab, Summer 2007, Focus: Journal of the City and Regional Planning Department (2008)
In the summer of 2007, a third-year design class was challenged by a real project...
Traver Concept Plan: A Participatory Process (with Umut Toker), Focus: Journal of the City and Regional Planning Department (2007)
In the summer of 2006, faculty Vicente del Rio and Umut Toker developed a series...
Park Marina Area Concept Plan: Riverfront Revitalization in Redding, CA (with Sean Nicholas), Focus: Journal of the City and Regional Planning Department (2006)
Through a community outreach effort and in a true learn-by-doing fashion, in winter 2005 CRP´s...
Urban Design Projects, City and Regional Planning Faculty Scholarship (2005)
Photographs and drawings of urban design projects of Vicente del Rio:
Fells Point Waterfront...
Beyond Brasilia - Contemporary Urban Design in Brazil, Proceedings of the 41st ISOCARP Congress: Bilbao, Spain (2005)
This paper is a brief discussion of a recent research on how Brazilian cities have...
Infill Residential Development: A Spectrum of Approaches (with Adrian Putra), Focus: Journal of the City and Regional Planning Department (2005)
In 2004, Dean Tom Jones initiated an important symposium series to discuss current issues related...
Paso Robles South Downtown Urban Design Concept, Focus: Journal of the City and Regional Planning Department (2005)
In the Spring 2004, this second-year BCRP studio class embraced a community outreach project as...
Sense of Community and Travel Behavior: Investigating New Urbanism and Smart Growth Principles in Two Residential Neighborhoods in San Luis Obispo County (with David Javid, Kris Krasnove, and Daniel Levi), Focus: Journal of the City and Regional Planning Department (2005)
This paper was first presented in poster format at the 2004 annual conference of the...
Sustainable Redevelopment and Innovation In a Global City: Interdisciplinary Design for São Paulo, Brazil (with Carlos Leite and Karlo Felix), Focus: Journal of the City and Regional Planning Department (2005)
In the Fall of 2004, CRP had visiting scholar Carlos Leite for post-doctoral studies, research...
The Image of the Waterfront in Rio de Janeiro: Urbanism and Social Representation of Reality (with Nara Iwata), Journal of Planning Education and Research (2004)
Postmodernity and economic globalization incite countries, regions, and cities to compete for investments, consumers, and...
Global Thinking, Local Planning, Focus: Journal of the City and Regional Planning Department (2004)
The beginning of the 2003 academic year was marked by CAED’s symposium Global Thinking, Local...
New Urbanism, Automobile Dependency and Sense of Community: A Comparative Study of Two Residential Developments in California (with Trevor Keith), Focus: Journal of the City and Regional Planning Department (2004)
This paper resumes a research that concentrated in the effectiveness of residential urban design in...
Urban Design and The Future of Public Space in the Brazilian City, Focus: Journal of the City and Regional Planning Department (2004)
Invited to participate in a research workshop organized by the Lozano Long Institute of Latin...
A Model for Undergraduate Study in Urban Design (with Brian Kesner, Lise Burcher, and Maurice Nelischer), Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference Proceedings: Baltimore, MD (2002)
Through this paper we intend to raise some fundamental questions regarding urban design education at...
The Performance of Urban Form in the Construction of a Place: Quality of Design in a 1930's Residential Area in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 8th International Seminar on Urban Form Proceedings: Cincinnati, OH (2001)
How much of the original urban design of an area leads to its perceived qualities,...
The Legacy of Modern Urbanism in Brazil: Paradigm turned reality or unfinished project? (with Haroldo Gallo), Docomomo Journal (2000)
The Modern Movement ideals of transformation and progress coincided with the national spirit and zeitgeist...
Cultural Corridor: A Preservation District in Downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (with Augusto Ivan Pinheiro), Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review (1993)
This paper concerns the first large-scale urban-design project in Brazil to deal with preservation and...
Urban Design and Conflicting City Images of Brazil: Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba, Cities (1992)
Imageability of places, cities and countries is strongly influenced by tourist and political portraits in...