publications

Journal articles:

• Rosa, A. A., Lima, F. (2025). A Framework for Informing Complete Street Planning: A Case Study in Brazil. Buildings, 15(1), 125. 

• Vilela, J. P., Lopes, R., Lima F. (2023) Interpreting a virtual reconstruction from different levels of detail: 3D modeling approaches combined with a phenomenological exploratory study. International Journal of Architectural Computing.  Online First.

• Lima, F., Costa, F. (2023) The Quest for Proximity: A Systematic Review of Computational Approaches towards 15-Minute Cities. Architecture, v.3, 393-409 

• Lima, F., Brown, N. C., Duarte, J. P. (2022) A Grammar-Based Optimization Approach for Designing Urban Fabrics and Locating Amenities for 15-Minute Cities. Buildings – Special issue on  Performance-Based Urban Design: Integrated Urban Analytics, Simulation and Climate-Responsive Design. Online First.

• Lima, F., Brown, N. C., Duarte, J. P. (2022) A grammar-based optimization approach for walkable urban fabrics considering pedestrian accessibility and infrastructure cost. Environment Planning and B – Special issue on Smart Cities and Climate-Resilient Urban Planning. Online First. 

• Lemos, D., Barbosa, S., Lima, F. (2022) The influence of urban canyons on thermal comfort: the case of Juiz de Fora. PARC: Pesquisa em arquitetura e construção., v.13, p.e022016

• Lima, F., Brown, N. C., Duarte, J. P. (2021) Understanding the impact of walkability, population density and population size on COVID-19 spread: a pilot study of the early contagion in the United States. Entropy , v. 23, 1512 

• Verniz, D., Lima, F., Duarte, J. P. (2021) Decoding and recoding urban settlements: an overview of the world studio project. Gestão & Tecnologia de Projetos (Design Management and Technology), v.17, p.131-140. 

• Vilela, J. P., Lopes, R. F., Lima, F. (2021) Modelagem 3d de edifícios históricos: a influência do LOD no processo de reconstrução virtual (3D modeling of historic buildings: the influence of LOD in the virtual reconstruction process. Gestão & Tecnologia de Projetos  (Design Management and Technology). v.16 – Special issue on Digital technologies and international cooperation in the management of cultural, architectural and urban heritage.

• Lima, F., Kos, J. R., Paraizo, R. C. (2016) Algorithmic approach toward Transit-Oriented Development neighborhoods: (Para)metric tools for evaluating and proposing rapid transit-based districts. International Journal of Architectural Computing, 14(2), 131–146

• Lima, F. (2018) Architectural Teaching and Design Computing: A Didactic Experience in a Brazilian Architecture Course. Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, v. 12, p. 51-58, 2018.

• Corrêa, V. P., Conforte, D., Pereira, L. A. R., Sanches, F., Castro, S. R., Lima, F. (2021) The use of urban public transport in Brazilian medium cities: a case study on the number of passengers in Juizde Fora, MG. Revista Nacional de Gerenciamento de Cidades. v.09, p.83-95.

• Lima, F., Costa, C. F. R., Rosa, A., Vallone, L. (2020) Abordagem urbana (para)métrica em áreas de habitação de interesse social (Urban (para)metric approach in social housing neighborhoods). PARC: Pesquisa em arquitetura e construção., v.11, p.e020024

• Lima, F., Costa, C. F. R., Rosa, A. (2020) Lógica algorítmica-paramétrica e urbanismo: uma revisão téorica e de modelos computacionais para projetos urbanos (Algorithmic-parametric logic and urbanism: a theoretical and computational model review for urban projects. Gestão & Tecnologia de Projetos (Design Management and Technology). v.15, p.84-97.

• Lima, F., Montenegro, N., Paraízo, R. C., Kós, J. R. (2019) Citymetrics: sistema (para)métrico para análise e otimização de configurações urbanas (Citymetrics: A (para)metric system for the analysis and optimization of urban configurations). Oculum Ensaios., v.16, p.409-427.

• Lima, F., Lopes, R. F., Abdalla, J. G. F. (2019) Conhecimento geométrico e modelagem algorítmico-paramétrica: um experimento prático-pedagógico sobre o processo projetual (Geometric knowledge and algorithmic-parametric modelling: A practical-pedagogical experiment about design process). Oculum Ensaios. v.16, p.121-137.

• Almeida, C. A., Lima, F., Borges, M. M. (2019) Tectônicas Digitais: a (in) tangibilidade no processo de projeto em arquitetura (Digital Tectonics: the (in) tangibility in the architectural design process). Design & Tecnologia. v.9, p.1-21.

• Ribeiro, F. L. O., Lima, F. (2019) Explorando métricas urbanas: desenvolvimento de uma ferramenta algorítmico-paramétrica para suporte em drenagem urbana na cidade de Juiz de Fora (Exploring urban metrics: developing an algorithmic-parametric tool to support urban drainage in the city of Juiz de Fora. Revista de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território. p.126-152.

• Lima, F. (2014) A parametrização do conceito de cidade compacta: uma abordagem “pós-moderna” para centros urbanos contemporâneos sustentáveis (The parameterization of the concept of compact city: a “post-modern” approach towards contemporary sustainable urban centers. Oculum Ensaios. v11, p. 259-270.

Book chapters:

• Lima, F., Duarte, J. P. (2023). Teaching shape grammars and parametric urban design in the context of informal settlements: The World Studio project, In: Emergent Perspectives on Teaching Architecture and Urbanism. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Routledge. 

• Lima, F., Brown, N., Duarte, J. P. (2022) Optimizing urban grid layouts using proximity metrics, In: Artificial Intelligence in Urban Planning and Design: Technologies, Implementation and Impacts. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 

• Lima F., Montenegro N., Paraizo R., Kós J. (2017) Urbanmetrics: An Algorithmic-(Para)Metric Methodology for Analysis and Optimization of Urban Configurations, In: Planning Support Science for Smarter Urban Futures. Berlin: Springer, Cham. 

• Lima, F., Silva, G. (2019) (Para)metric representations and urban indicators: An application of CityMetrics in a neighborhood of João Pessoa, Brazil. In: Drawing (...) City (...) Body, Dwelling on Earth Imagined-Architectures: Architectural Graphic Representation and Other Images. London: CRC Press.

• Lima, F., Kos, J. R., Paraizo, R. C. (2016) Algorithms-Aided Sustainable Urban Design. In: Handbook of Research on Visual Computing and Emerging Geometrical Design Tools. Hershey, USA: IGI Global. 

• Andrade, R. A., Borges, M. M., Lima, F. (2019) Concepts of Building Information Modelling. In: Digital Techniques applied to Design Process. Juiz de Fora: Editora UFJF.

Edited and authored books:

• Lima, F., Borges, M. M., Costa, C. F. (eds). (2019) Design Techniques applied to design process. Juiz de Fora: Editora UFJF. ISBN 978-85-93128-35-6

• Lima, F. (2019) Métricas Urbanas: Abordagens paramétricas no planejamento de bairros e cidades sustentáveis (Urban Metrics: parametric approaches in sustainable neighborhoods and cities planning. São Paulo: Probooks. ISBN: 9788561453596

• Paula, F. B. R., Lima, F., Fonseca, J., Morais, V. R. R. (eds). (2016) 101 conceitos de arquitetura e urbanismo na era digital (101 concepts of architecture and urbanism in the digital age). São Paulo: ProBooks. ISBN: 9788561453503

Peer-reviewed international conference proceedings:

• Lemos, D., Barbosa, S., Lima, F. (2023) A Computational Workflow for Analyzing Thermal Comfort in Outdoor Spaces: Findings From an Urban Canyon Case Study. In: 18th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management - CUPUM Conference 2023, Montreal, Canada.

• Lemos, D., Barbosa, S., Lima, F. (2022) Thermal assessment of an urban canyon in Brazil: a chrono-morphological approach from 1940 to a future scenario. In: 36th Passive and Low Energy Architecture - PLEA Conference 2022, Santiago, Chile.

• Costa, F., Lima, F. (2022) Parametric evaluation of urban compactness in Brazil: a computational study in Juiz de Fora. In: 26th Conference of the Ibero-American Society for Digital Graphics - SIGraDi, Lima, Peru.

• Lima, F., Brown, N., Duarte, J. P. (2021) Urban Design Optimization: Generative Approaches towards Urban Fabrics with Improved Transit Accessibility and Walkability. In:  Projections: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia - CAADRIA, Hong Kong, China.

• Lima, F., Muthumanickam, N., Miller, M., Duarte, J. P. (2020) World Studio: a pedagogical experience using shape grammars and parametric approaches to design in the context of informal settlements. In: Proceedings of the 24th Conference of the Ibero-American Society for Digital Graphics - SIGraDi, Medellin, Colombia.

• Lima, F., Vallone, L., Costa, C. F., Rosa, A. A. (2019) (Para)metric Evaluation of Walkability, Diversity and Density in Low-income Neighborhoods Using the CityMetrics toolbox. In: Proceedings of the 37th eCAADe and 23rd SIGraDi Conference, Porto, Portugal.

• Vallone, L., Costa, F., Scafutto, L., Lima, F. (2018) Digital approaches for evaluating urban indicators: an application of CityMetrics for analysis of two neighborhoods in Juiz de Fora, Brazil. In: Proceedings of 22nd SIGraDi Conference, São Carlos, Brazil. 

• Paglis, J., Brandão, G., Lima, F., Serdoura, F. (2018) Urban Analysis and Space Syntax Theory: study and mapping of the city of Juiz de Fora, Brazil. In: Proceedings of 22nd SIGraDi Conference, São Carlos, Brazil. 

• Lima, F., Montenegro, N., Beirão, J. N., Kos, J. R. (2016) Computational Approach for the Assessment of Transit Oriented Development Principles: A multivariate optimization method for urban planning. In: 34th eCAADe Conference: Complexity & Simplicity, Oulu, Finland.

• Lima, F., Kos, J. R., Paraizo, R. C. (2015) Algorithmic Approach for Transit-Oriented Development: Computational Optimization in Sustainable Cities Proposals. In: 31st Passive and Low Energy Architecture - PLEA Conference 2015, Bologna, Italy.

• Lima, F., Calazans, A. M. (2013) The appliance of parameterization proposing urban projects: A digital approach for sustainability. In: 29th Passive and Low Energy Architecture - PLEA Conference 2013, Munich, Germany.

Reports:

• Designing for the Blue Zones - ARC 4026 studio report. (2024) Belmont University.

• Designing for the greater good - ARC 4025 studio report. (2023) Belmont University.

• World Studio 2021 - Design Studio Report. (2021) Pennsylvania State University.

• Ruas Completas no Brasil: Promovendo uma mudança de paradigma (Complete Streets in Brazil: promoting a paradigm shift). (2021) World Ross Institute Brazil (WRI Brazil).

Ph.D. Dissertation:

• Urban metrics:(para) metric system for analysis and optimization of urban configurations (2017) Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.