Telephone number:	+31 (0)71 527 1745
E-Mail:	m.moura.borges@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department:	Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for History, Geschiedenis diversen
Office Address:	Binnenstadcomplex Rapenburg 38 2311 EX Leiden Room number 2.04
Personal Homepage:	www.hum.leiden.edu/​history/​staff/​mouraborgesm.html

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Fields of interest

• Urban History
• History and theory of architecture and urbanism
• Spatial planning history, theory and practices
• Cultural Heritage
• Comparative research

Research

Overseas territories in the Orient: comparing urban developments in Portuguese and Dutch colonial cities, 1498 - 1798.

The research aims to extend the current knowledge on the Asian overseas territories in the field of Urban History using a comparative framework to analyse the urban development processes of selected Portuguese and Dutch settlements.
It is generally acknowledged that the colonial settling strategies followed by the European powers in the context of their overseas expansions in the Orient led to a succession of site developments circumscribed to the same territory, which in time gave rise to a network of colonial cities / towns shaped by multiple cultural influences.
The specific aim of the investigation is to further extend the Urban History's current knowledge on these cities by an historical inquiry of the Portuguese and Dutch cultural influences in its layout and city-building processes between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries.

Curriculum vitae

Margarida B. M. Borges has a degree in Architecture with a specialization in urban management by FAUTL - Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon (2009), a degree in Design with a specialization in industrial design by IADE - High School of Visual Arts Design and Marketing (1996) and a pos-graduation degree in Industrial Design by the GLASGOW SCHOLL OF ART & CPD (1998). In the academic year 2006-07 was honored with a Student Awarded for Merit by the Technical University of Lisbon.
Worked for several years in design and architecture and for the last three years conducted an intense work on the town planning area, developing spatial plans, including for the safeguard of historic city centers, and dealing with the related planning practices and processes.