Urban Planning Policies to the Renewal of Riverfront Areas: The Lisbon Metropolis Case

Eduardo Medeiros, Ana Brandão, Paulo Tormenta Pinto and Sara Silva Lopes
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Eduardo Medeiros: Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), DINÂMIA’CET -Iscte, Edifício Sedas Nunes, Avenida das Forças Armadas, Sala 2W4-d, 1649-026 Lisbon, Portugal
Ana Brandão: Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), DINÂMIA’CET -Iscte, Edifício Sedas Nunes, Avenida das Forças Armadas, Sala 2W4-d, 1649-026 Lisbon, Portugal
Paulo Tormenta Pinto: Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), DINÂMIA’CET -Iscte, Edifício Sedas Nunes, Avenida das Forças Armadas, Sala 2W4-d, 1649-026 Lisbon, Portugal
Sara Silva Lopes: Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), DINÂMIA’CET -Iscte, Edifício Sedas Nunes, Avenida das Forças Armadas, Sala 2W4-d, 1649-026 Lisbon, Portugal

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 10, 1-20

Abstract: Urban planning offers various design possibilities to solve fundamental challenges faced in urban areas. These include the need to physically renew old industrial and harbour riverside areas into liveable, inclusive and sustainable living spaces. This paper investigates the way urban planning policies have helped to renew the waterfront areas in the Lisbon metropolis in the past decades. For this purpose, the contribution of the European Union (EU) and national urban development plans over the past decades are analysed. The results demonstrate an intense renewal of the waterfront areas in the Lisbon metropolitan area (LMA), particularly in Lisbon over the past three decades into leisure, ecologic and touristic areas, vis-à-vis the previous industrial and harbour vocation.

Keywords: urban planning; waterfront areas; Lisbon; urban development; POLIS; integrated sustainable urban development strategies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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