Melissa Barrientos

Melissa's main interests are exploring the built environment, its structure and composition; the impact of design and urban planning on the city construction; and the relation between space and the dynamic processes driving the urban milieu. Melissa’s work focuses on studying urban phenomena such as rapid urban growth at the urban scale, in particular with respect to the problem of residential expansion and its effect on traditional cities, using urban morphometrics and complexity science. She is a designer and researcher with an innovative approach to the urban formation process based on well-informed groundwork.

Research Focus and Interests - rapid urban growth, spatial analysis, urban morphology, urban design, network science