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- Creative tourism as a humanistic approach to regenerative tourismPublication . Bakas, Fiona EvaCreative tourism can be an effective platform to foster regeneration since it stimulates collaboration, exchange and local development. It highlights the local identity, promoting the preservation of intangible heritage and reinforcing distinctiveness. Through meaningful interactions, creative tourism stimulates ideas improving the repertoire of one another and impacting not only the local but also the external. Aiming to promote a small-scale tourism model, aligned with the territory’s specificities and focused on cultural, social, economic and environmental sustainability, creative tourism can contribute to improving the local quality of life. Thus, creative tourism could be successfully applied to regenerate a destination depleted by mass tourism or as a tool for regenerating a marginalised place with the potential to be a tourism destination. This chapter explores the ways in which in a small city context, a national-scale creative tourism network created within the research-action project called CREATOUR, forges new meaningful understandings of how tourism can catalyse the regeneration of local communities, through the activation of local culture. Perceiving local culture as a key element in creating uniqueness, the chapter discusses the emergence of five creative tourism models and how they contribute towards the regeneration of places, particularly small cities and rural areas.
- Geographic Education and Citizen Participation: The Project We Propose!Publication . Claudino, SérgioFrom the transition between the 18th and 19th centuries, the teaching of Geography emphasized the description of large global spaces, aligned with a rationalist perspective suitable for shaping expansionist elites. In the 19th century, this discipline fostered identification with the nation-state through the concept of territory, promoting a conformist form of citizenship. The following century, marked by two world wars and the Cold War, continued these educational traditions. The current century introduces the social appeal of participatory and multi-scalar territorial construction. The Nós Propomos!/ We Propose! Project embraces the challenge of fostering committed and proactive participation in territorial citizenship. Its methodological simplicity (problem identification by pupils, fieldwork, presentation, and sharing of proposals) ensures its applicability even in educational peripheries. The international expansion of the project demonstrates that it provides an alternative educational response, influencing educational practices beyond the boundaries of Nós Propomos!
- Criterios y proceso para la selección de términos de Ordenamiento Territorial en Iberoamérica: Definición de términos por países: PortugalPublication . Queirós, Margarida; Marques Da Costa, EduardaO Ordenamento do Território (OT) é um assunto multidisciplinar, com numerosas interseções entre as ciências sociais e naturais e ainda, muito particularmente, onde a teoria e a prática se entrecruzam repetidamente. O OT tem implicações nas nossas vidas, a longo e a curto prazo, e é frequentemente alvo de apropriação e de culpabilização quando as ações no território têm consequências não desejadas. As dinâmicas territoriais são muito diversas e evoluem, assim como os conceitos usados para as compreender. Porque existem diferentes culturas de planeamento e contextos regionais, um mesmo conceito pode ter interpretações e aplicações diversas. E esses conceitos são trabalhados por instituições políticas, académicas, entidades económicas e os sujeitos que os utilizam também os transformam.
- Gentrification and the housing crisis from the lens of Marxist and critical urban theoryPublication . Mendes, LuísThe issue of production, distribution, and access to housing is closely linked to society and economy developed under the current capitalist mode of production as a contemporary hegemonic system. And the housing crisis and the creative destruction strategies of the contemporary urban landscape (e.g., gentrification and its euphemisms of urban regeneration) are structural issues also determined by the cyclical and increasingly frequent crises of capitalism, especially in the current financialization of the capitalist totality. Thus, in the present chapter, we pretend to analyze the issue of housing and gentrification in the urban space, from the point of view of critical urban theory, as a process of production and realization of surplus value and as a process of reproduction of capital, but also as a means of production in the form of fixed capital, which materializes in the built environment (buildings, bridges, roads, equipment, and infrastructure in general).
- Biodeteção Móvel Participativa para o Desenho UrbanoPublication . Paiva, Daniel; Cachinho, Herculano; Estevens, Ana; Gonçalves, Ana; Ferreira, Daniela; Brito-Henriques, Eduardo; Boavida-Portugal, Inês; Rodrigues, Nuno; Pedro, Tomás; Equipa UrBioEste guia foi especialmente desenvolvido para urbanistas interessados em aplicar metodologias de desenho urbano participativas para tornar as cidades em que trabalham mais sensíveis às emoções dos seus habitantes. A metodologia que se apresenta consiste na introdução de técnicas de biodeteção móvel, que nos oferecem informação sobre o estado fisiológico e emocional dos habitantes, em métodos participativos reconhecidos em análise e design urbano. Esta metodologia é recomendada para implementação em projetos de regeneração de escala local, nomeadamente ao nível de praças e ruas, em que a dimensão experiencial é importante, como é o caso de espaços de consumo ou turismo.
- Critical transitions: unpacking decarbonization strategies in portuguese industry and regional disparitiesPublication . Vale, Mário; Alves, Tiago L.; Fontes, Margarida; Mamede, Ricardo Paes; Bento, NunoIn the wake of the Paris Agreement, the urgency for decarbonization has intensified globally, prompting varied responses from different regions and sectors. This study critically examines the uneven decarbonization trajectories of Portuguese firms within the framework of the Portugal 2020 (PT2020) program, informed by transition theory and regional innovation systems. Employing a multi-method approach that combines natural language processing and a systematic literature review, we identify and categorize the decarbonization strategies of 278 out of 2,793 firms funded by PT2020 between 2020 and 2023. Our findings reveal a modest (less than 10 % of all projects) but pivotal engagement in decarbonization, predominantly focused on the Porto metropolitan area and adjacent regions, indicating a pattern of uneven geographical transitions. Larger, established firms predominantly undertake these initiatives, reflecting a skew in policy effectiveness towards more stable entities. The most common pathways—demand and co-benefits (49 %) and decarbonization of electricity (34 %)—suggest a preference for immediately actionable strategies (electrification of uses and technological breakthroughs). This study underscores the disparity in decarbonization efforts across firms, but also regions, correlating higher industrial productivity and urbanization with increased activity. Such trends reveal the influence of existing economic structures and regional capacities on the adoption of green technologies, which exacerbate regional inequalities in the face of global decarbonization mandates. This study improves the understanding on the potential of decarbonization to increase or decrease inequalities among companies and regions. It provides crucial lessons for policies aiming to accelerate decarbonization to achieve the 2030 goals. Further research is required to explore the impact of regional specialization on decarbonization strategies and to develop more inclusive and equitable policies.
- Postcolonial GeographiesPublication . Ascensão, EduardoPost-colonial is a qualifier that identifies both a context – that is, a country, a city or a polit ical regime after independence from colonial rule – and a theoretical and epistemological perspective on that same or related contexts. Such a perspective not only looks for and makes explicit the conditions of oppression and domination pertaining to colonialism but, crucially, aims at deconstructing the knowl edge forms associated with the latter and, in the process, integrates the viewpoint of the oppressed or the colonized. The first is essentially a political and historical marker for describing a period or a place, while the second is an ontological shift to see from the eyes of the hitherto invisible, racialized or exoticized, and integrate their worldviews into a more complete, non-Eurocentric anal ysis. In the latter sense, ‘post-colonial’ is not merely an adjective but a mode of knowing, and it is the epistemological basis for the field of knowledge known as post-colonial studies, with its ‘impulse to invert, expose, transcend or deconstruct knowledges and practices associated with colonialism’ (Sidaway, 2000, p. 592).
- Ghosts of colonialism in the post-imperial city: a history of informal settlements in Lisbon, 1970-2010Publication . Ascensão, EduardoIn the late 1980s, fifteen years after the Portuguese democratic revolution, it was estimated that around 200,000 people lived in informal settlements in the country (AML 1997; Númena 2003: 143; Ascensão 2015a: 52). This was the peak of a long process of internal migration to the Porto and Lisbon metropolitan areas since the 1960s and immigration to Lisbon since the mid-1970s from the newly independent Portuguese-speaking African countries Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe. The most vulnerable of these populations had been prized out of the housing market and immigrants were left out of the eligible pool for the diminutive public housing system; in effect, they had been “led” to the interstices of the urban fabric to look for or build the accommodation they could not find or afford in the regular city. Informal settlements were then tacitly accepted by the state because of its inability to provide housing for everyone. The state turned a blind eye while the white Portuguese internal migrants and the Black African postcolonial immigrants who constituted the urban poor settled in shanties or similar structures in areas that had become unprofitable for agriculture but were not yet subject to the instruments of urban planning such as surveying or zoning (Salgueiro 1977; Rodrigues 1989; Nunes and Serra 2004; Pinto 2015).
- Temporalities of onward migration: long-term temporariness, cyclical labour arrangements and lived time in the cityPublication . McGarrigle, Jennifer; Ascensão, EduardoThis chapter thus seeks to explore the temporal and spatial dimensions of Lisbon as an interlude in ongoing migration projects. It is based on fieldwork conducted in the ambit of a project on the socio-spatial integra tion of migrants living in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (McGarrigle, 2016). While the study was wider in its scope – including further neigh bourhood case studies and Portuguese-speaking post-colonial migrantion populations with historical links to the country´s history – in this chapter we focus on a sub-sample of more recent migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India. It draws on narratives from 45 interviews on migration trajectories, the process of settling in the city, experiences of living in Lisbon and future migration aspirations. Interviews were conducted, following snowball sampling, between 2012 and 2014 in two areas important for South Asian migrants living and entering the city: the diverse inner-city neighbourhood of Mouraria and the suburban area of Odivelas, where contacts were made at a Sikh place of worship (Gurd wara) for Punjabi-born people (a relatively recently settled community in Lisbon).1 The sample is largely male (42) due to difficulties in interview ing females (three), who are fewer in number and less present in the public sphere. Time of arrival in Portugal ranges between 1996 and 2014; however the vast majority arrived from around 2006 onwards
- Slum gentrification in Lisbon, Portugal: displacement and the imagined futures of an informal settlementPublication . Ascensão, EduardoWhen Lisbon is presented in touristic and official discourses, it is often the city’s post-imperial culture that comes to the forefront. The city and its monuments are associated with the history of its Navigators and with the Portuguese Empire, and many elements are presented as ‘remnants of empire’. The city centre contains different historical layers (such as a 13th-century Moor neighbourhood, elements of the 16th-century maritime world or late-18th-century rationalist urban design; see França, 2008) but the one thing linking five centuries of history together is the reference to empire. Heroic navigation, scientific expeditions, settlement colonialism and miscegenation, all are...