Renato T. de Saboya

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Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, in undergraduate and graduate levels. He received his Professional Degree in Architecture and Urban Design at UFSC (1997), a Master’s Degree in Urban and Regional Planning at UFRGS (2001) and a Doctor’s Degree in Civil Engineering at UFSC (2007). He is a CNPq Research Fellow studying urban morphology and configuration, land use diversity and socio-spatial segregation. He was the Director of Graduate Studies in Architecture and Urbanism at UFSC from 2016 to 2018 and, in 2020, was a visiting researcher at Oxford Brookes University. Other research interests are epistemological and methodological aspects in the social sciences.

Research interests

  • Urban morphology and configuration.
  • Land uses and land use mix.
  • Socio-spatial segregation.
  • Space and healthy ageing.

Selected publications

Saboya, R. T. de, D’Orsi, E., & Keivani, R. (2024). Promoting active aging in Brazil: A longitudinal study of land use mix and utilitarian walking in older adults. Cities, 154, 105318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105318
Salvador, C. C., Lopes, A. A. D. S., Saboya, R. T. D., Kanashiro, M., & d’Orsi, E. (2024). Land use mix and walking for transportation among older adults: an approach based on different metrics of the built environment. Urbe. Revista Brasileira de Gestão Urbana, 16, e20220211. https://doi.org/10.1590/2175-3369.016.e20220211
Salvador, C. C., Lopes, A. A. dos S., Resendes, D., Demarco, F. F., Justina, M. D. D., Saboya, R. T. de, Rech, C. R., & d’Orsi, E. (2023). Geocoding processes in cohort studies: methods applied in the EpiFloripa Aging. Rev. Saúde Pública, 57. https://doi.org/10.11606/s1518-8787.2023057004976
Silva, O. R. C. da, & Saboya, R. T. de. (2023). Advertisements for enslaved Black women and female urban dynamics in Desterro. Revista Estudos Feministas, 31, e80623. https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2023v31n180623-en
Kretzer, G., Kanashiro, M., & Tibiriçá de Saboya, R. (2023). Complementarity between urban land uses: a temporal analysis. Journal of Urban Design, 0(0), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2023.2280272
Netto, V. M., Saboya, R., & Vargas, J. C. (2022). Does Architecture Matter to Urban Vitality? Buildings and the Social Life of Streets and Neighbourhoods. Built Environment, 48(3), 317–340. https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.48.3.317
Saboya, R. T. (2019). Urban planning as collective, progressive, interrelated and path-dependent decision making. Revista Políticas Públicas & Cidades - 2359-1552, 8(3). https://doi.org/10.23900/2359-1552v8n3_4
Netto, V. M., Vargas, J. C., & Saboya, R. (2019). The social effects of architecture: built form and social sustainability. In R. Keivani & M. R. Shirazi (Eds.), Urban social sustainability: theory, practice and policy (pp. 125–148). Routledge.
Souza, G. P. de, & Saboya, R. T. de. (2017). Copresencia, interacción y diversidad: Análisis socioespacial en el campus universitario. Arquitecturas del Sur, 54–69. https://doi.org/10.22320/07196466.2017.35.052.06