Joana Barros

Dr. Barros’ background is in Architecture and Urban Planning. She holds an MSc in Urban and Regional Planning (UFRGS, Brazil) and a PhD in Planning Studies from Bartlett School and Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London (UCL). Her area of expertise is Geocomputation, more specifically agent-based and cellular automata models applied to urban systems. She is also interested in complexity theory, representation of dynamics in GIS, and urban development in developing countries. Most of her research applies dynamic models to urban development of cities in Latin America.

Dr Barros is currently the Director for the Birkbeck MSc GISc Programme.

Publications (short list):

• LIZARAZO I. & BARROS J. (2008). Fuzzy image segmentation for urban land-cover classification. GEOBIA 2008: Pixels, Object, Intelligence. Calgary (Canada).
• BARROS, J. & SOBREIRA, F, (2008) City of Slums: Self-Organisation across Scales, in Minai, A. and Bar-Yam, Y., eds, Unifying Themes in Complex Systems IV: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Complex Systems, Springer & NECSI, Berlin.
• BATTY, M., BARROS, J. & ALVES JR, S. (2006) Cities: continuity, transformation and emergence, in E. Garnsey and J. McGlade, eds, Complexity and Co-Evolution: Continuity and Change in Socio-Economic Systems, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.
• BATTY, M., BARROS, J. & ALVES JR, S. (2005) The Dynamics of Cities, in A. Bruzzo and S. Occelli, eds, Le Relazioni Tra Conoscenza Ed Innovazione Nello Sviluppo Dei Territori, Franco Angeli, Milan.
• BARROS, J. (2004), Simulating Urban Dynamics in Latin American Cities, in Atkinson, P. M., et al., eds, Geodynamics, CRC Press, New York.
• BARROS, J. & ALVES JR., S. (2003), Simulating Rapid Urbanisation in Latin American Cities, in Longley, P. and Batty, M., eds, Advanced Spatial Analysis: The Casa Book of GIS, ESRI Press, London.