Movie – SILVIA TAVARES

SILVIA TAVARES

Urbanity, a movie by Jacques Lévy (and Ítalo Calvino)

In the last couple of weeks I have been preparing for my final PhD oral exam. While searching for new publications by key authors I referred to in my research, I came across a movie by Jacques Lévy called Urbanity – concept framed in my thesis based upon his publications amongst others. Read more…

About Dr Silvia Tavares

Urban designer with a background in architecture, urbanism, and building and city science. Brazilian national. Senior Lecturer in Urban Design and Town Planning at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Affiliate member of PIA and registered architect and urbanist in Brazil.

Passionate about interfaces between urbanism, landscape and architecture. Interested in providing evidence through research to produce public open spaces that are thermally comfortable and economically effective, while promoting the good health of users and the natural environments that surround them.

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