The word ‘peripheries’ has firmly entered the academic lexicon in Portugal. Until a few years ago, Portuguese academic literature mainly focused on the concept of suburbia, associating it with the suburbanization process in its analysis. This new framing of urban peripheries highlights a broader range of approaches, which do not always align, and introduce new epistemologies and analytical perspectives. In this...
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This article results from a research project on inequalities and transportation in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, and contributes to the scientific debate on the production of urban mobility. Through the analysis of a set of interviews addressed to residents in three municipalities, this study achieves two main goals. First, it describes the main transportation modes in order to identify a general trend toward a...