Research Group
Research Group
Research Group
Cities and Territories
This Group focuses its research on the territorial dimensions of contemporary socioeconomic, environmental and cultural change, analysing its complex restructuring mechanisms at the light of their spatiality, their territorial embeddedness and their spatial-morphological dimensions, and framing them in the scope of the promotion of multidimensional sustainable development processes.
The strategy for deepening the knowledge about the dynamics of change in spatial and territorial terms is based on the acknowledgment of the diversity of logics, processes and actors that produce and appropriate these processes. This is always done from a triple perspective, involving (i) the analysis of the "dynamics" themselves; (ii) the understanding of the regulation/planning issues and the aspects related to urban/territorial action and “policy-making"; and (iii), a "reflexive" consciousness of the ways these spaces are worked and studied.
Coordinator
Thematic Lines:
2.1. Creativity, Culture and Territory;
2.2. Representations and discourse on architecture and territory;
2.3. Ways of Living, Society and Architectural Culture;
2.4. Recompositions, Metropolitan Change, and Housing;
2.5. Territorial Governance, Spatial Planning and Socio-spatial Intervention;
projects
Recent publications
Activist Architects Toolbox: Challenging the Austere Policies of Urban Governance in European Periphery |
Women's absence from the public sphere: gender inequality in Portuguese architecture schools |
The Unstable Lightness of Rock Once Again. Careers, Trajectories and DIY Cultures in Portuguese Indie Rock |
My space in our home: young people strategies to access housing in Lisboa |
Managing cross-border projects towards more resilient cooperation in borderlands. The post-pandemic perspective |
EU Cohesion Policy towards Territorial Cohesion? |
“Samba de uma nota só”? Turismo cultural num destino de sol e praia |