The Neighbourhood’s Multipli(city)SICYURB 2011

Maria Assunção Gato (CEACT/UAL)Filipa Ramalhete (CEACT/UAL)

Nuno Pires Soares (e-Geo/FCSH-UNL)

Campo de Ourique

Lisbon: city of neighbourhoods

• Historic • Contemporary• Social dwelling • Selective housing• Planned / without plan • Touristic / “Folkloric” • “Authentic”

Telheiras

The concept of “neighbourhood” is…

• A constant reference in different speeches (common, technical, scientific, promotional, historical, political, strategic, fictional ...);

• A reality with a global existence but whose traits differ locally;

• An idea that is easy to identify but hard to define.

Graça

Research Project “Neighbourhoods in Lisbon 2012” aims to

• discuss some operative and fundamental concepts related to “neighbourhoods”;

• understand why certain places are recognized as “neighbourhoods” and others do not;

• establish criteria that can be used to analyze the urban contemporary reality.

Campo Ourique

Some Neighbourhoods (6 case studies)

• Graça• Campo Ourique• Telheiras• Alvalade• Ajuda• ?

Graça

Done!

In progress

Some Concepts

• concepts

Telheiras

•Gentrification (urban social dynamics)

•Mode d’occupation (composition of urban environments)

•Lifestyles (practices, behaviours and representations)

•Authenticity (identities, performances and experiments)

Some social and spatial representations• Collective identities and memories

• Social homogeneities and new social recomposition

• The interior, the exterior and the limits

• Authentic and typical negotiation

Campo Ourique

Relationship with the neighbours

0 50 100 150 200

Friendship withsome

neighbours

No relationshipwith the

neighbours

Acquaintancewith some

neighbours

Graça

Campo de Ourique

Telheiras

Campo Ourique

Years of residence in the neighbourhood

0 20 40 60 80 100 120

Since always

More than 20 years

11 to 20 years

6 to 10 years

1 to 5 years

Less than 1 year

Graça

Campo de Ourique

Telheiras

Graça

Activities performed inside / outside the neighbourhoodTelheiras

Satisfaction degree with some characteristics of the neighbourhood

0 50 100 150 200 250

Commerce

Parking

Quality of life

Prestige

Inhabitants

Security

DK/DA

Low

Average

High

Campo Ourique

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