Geographer, PhD in Human Geography and Prof. Associate of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, FAUP in the Integrated Master and PhD courses, and researcher at CEAU, Center for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism at FAUP. Professor of the PhD course Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories at ISCTE, Lisbon, and of the Master in Architecture at the University of Minho. Professor of the Summer Courses at the Serralves Foundation 2005-2008. Invited Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2006, and Granada in 2005. 

Among other works, he is the author of Paisagens Transgénicas (Museu da Paisagem, Lisboa, 2021), Volta a Portugal (Contraponto, Lisboa, 2017), Território Casa Comum (with Nuno Travasso, FAUP, Porto, 2015), Rua da Estrada (Dafne, Porto, 2010), Vida no Campo (Dafne, Porto, 2012) and Urban Policies I and II (with Nuno Portas and João Cabral, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, 2003 e 2011), City and Democracy (Argumentum, Lisboa, 2006). He writes for the Público newspaper