I am currently an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), in the department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-Information Management (PGM), of the University of Twente. I am also a researcher at PLUS - People, Land and Urban Systems, at ITC.

I received my PhD in Urban Planning in 2014, from the Blekinge Institute of Technology, in collaboration with Circle - Center for Innovation, Research and Learning in the learning Economy, at Lund University, in Sweden. I hold a bachelor in Geography from the University of Porto, in Portugal, and a master in European Spatial Planning and Regional Development, from the Blekinge Institute of Technology, in Sweden.

Expertise

  • Social Sciences

    • Planning
    • Public Space
    • Social Participation
    • Management
    • Economic and Social Development
    • Urban Areas
    • Change
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

    • Land

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Publications

2026

Informal economy notion in creative industry policy: the case of Bandung creative city (2026)International Development Planning Review, 1-39 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Aritenang, A. F., Madureira, A. M., Bustamante Duarte, A. M., Zul Fahmi, F., Iskandar, Z. S., Nurman, A., Pfeffer, K., Ramdan, D. & Safitri, P.https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2025.18

2025

Competing frames and policy change: Greece’s land administration reform from the mid-1990s to the economic crisis (2009–2018) (2025)Land use policy, 158. Article 107733. Balla, E., Zevenbergen, J. A. & Madureira, A. M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107733Understanding planning support systems institutionalization in the planning process through actor–network theory: The case of the strategic development framework methodology (2025)ISPRS international journal of geo-information, 14(10). Article 399. Oyeku, D. A., Boerboom, L., Madureira, A. M. & Pfeffer, K.https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi14100399Empowering scholarship: Young researcher-led journals as spaces for learning, envisioning, and experimenting with alternatives (2025)PlaNext, 15, 61-77. Privitera, E. (., Grabalov, P., Husar, M., Leccis, F., Madureira, M., Nath, S., Uğur, L., Mukhopadhyay, C. & Varış Husar, S. C.https://doi.org/10.24306/plnxt/111Spaces of work, encounter, and representation of, and for, creative industries (2025)City, Culture and Society, 41. Article 100639. Madureira, A. M., Bustamante Duarte, A. M., Pfeffer, K. & Aritenang, A.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100639Using a digital participatory platform to evaluate public space quality (2025)GeoJournal, 90(3). Article 145. Alvarado Vazquez, S., Ostermann, F. O., Pinto Soares Madureira, A. M. & Pfeffer, K.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-025-11383-9The reform of the Hellenic Cadastre under financial duress and external pressure in the period 2009 – 2018 (2025)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). Balla, E.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036566070Innovation in informal creative industries: The case of Indonesia's creative kampongs (2025)Cities, 160. Article 105805. Aritenang, A. F., Anjani, Z. F., Safitri, P., Zul Fahmi, F., Bustamante Duarte, A. M., Pfeffer, K., Madureira, A. M., Ramdan, D. & Nurman, A.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.105805Review Handbook of Quality of Life Research. Place and Space Perspectives, Edited by Robert W. Marans, Robert J. Stimson, Noah J. Webster (2025)Applied research in quality of life, 20(2), 887-892. Madureira, A. M.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-025-10423-3Land Reforms Revisited: An Emerging Perspective on the Hellenic Land Administration Reform as a Wicked Policy Problem (2025)Land, 14(2), 1-22. Article 282. Balla, E., Madureira, A. M. & Zevenbergen, J. A.https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020282

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