Faculty Member, Geography
About
Juval Portugali, Professor of Geography. Department of Geography and the Human Environment Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel, Tel:+973(3)640-8661; Fax:+972(3)640-6243; Email: juval@post.tau.ac.il. Web: http://www.eslab.tau.ac.il. Head of the ESLab (Environmental Simulation Laboratory), the Porter School of Environmental Studies. Head of the Environment and Society Graduate Program. Ph.D at the Department of Geography, The London School of Economics and Political Sciences.
Specialisation: Cognitive Geography, theories of self-organization in relation to cognitive maps, urbanism, agent-based modeling, socio-spatial change, spatial and regional archaeology.
Current research: (i) Inter-representation networks and the construction of cognitive maps. (ii) The city as a self-organizing system. 2D and 3D urban simulation models.
Recent Books: Implicate Relations: Society and space in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, London, Boston 1993. The Construction of Cognitive Maps, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, London, Boston 1996 (Ed.). Self-Organization and the city, Springer, 1999, Berlin, Heidelberg. Complex Artificial Environments. Springer Complexity Series, 2006 (Ed.).
