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Post‐industrial urban shrinkage in Lisbon: planning challenges for former manufacturing sites

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Summary:The paper aims are twofold: This paper develops a new approach to measure physical change outcomes of urban shrinkage (No Void project). The paper showcases Lisbon city, which has suffered depopulation, explained by economic restructuring, and suburbanization and the effects of economic cycles (boom and bust) mingled with political options, comparing two manufacturing areas (East and Southwest) with different fortunes.
Main Authors:Vale, Mário
Other Authors:Brito-Henriques, Eduardo; Morgado, Paulo
Subject:Population shrinkage Land use changes Urban shrinkage Ruins area Economic restructuring Metropolitan suburbanization Economic cycles City Lisbon (Portugal)
Year:2017
Country:Portugal
Document type:conference output
Access type:open access
Associated institution:Universidade de Lisboa
Language:English
Origin:Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
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Summary:The paper aims are twofold: This paper develops a new approach to measure physical change outcomes of urban shrinkage (No Void project). The paper showcases Lisbon city, which has suffered depopulation, explained by economic restructuring, and suburbanization and the effects of economic cycles (boom and bust) mingled with political options, comparing two manufacturing areas (East and Southwest) with different fortunes.