Mobility as a programmatic vector for the qualification of public space in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area [1998-2023]

Authors

  • João Rafael Santos CIAUD, Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design, Faculdade de Arquitetura, Universidade de Lisboa https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7052-043X
  • Tomás Nunes CIAUD, Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design, Faculdade de Arquitetura, Universidade de Lisboa
  • José Duarte CIAUD, Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design, Faculdade de Arquitetura, Universidade de Lisboa
  • Ana Beja da Costa CIAUD, Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design, Faculdade de Arquitetura, Universidade de Lisboa https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-2996

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/qru.13411

Abstract

The article offers a systematised perspective on the contribution of recent public space qualification interventions in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area to the transition of its mobility logics and territorial conditions. As part of MetroPublicNet, a research project funded by the FCT, the article's argument highlights the main characteristics and territorial expression of the public space projects carried out in the Portuguese capital region in terms of their contribution to the promotion of low-carbon mobility through the improvement of conditions for walkability, active modes and access to public transport. Considering its complex and multidimensional character, the project seeks a combined reading with contributions to the promotion of environmental resilience through green and blue infrastructure networks and the promotion of territorial cohesion through the improvement and connection of public spaces in more segregated residential areas. Concluding remarks and contributions reveal some future perspectives in terms of assemblage mechanisms towards an incremental logic of public space development at the scale of the metropolis.

Author Biographies

João Rafael Santos, CIAUD, Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design, Faculdade de Arquitetura, Universidade de Lisboa

João Rafael Santos is an Architect, PhD in Urbanism (2012) and Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism on Master and PhD levels at Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa. Post-doctoral scholarship at The University of Tokyo. Coordinator of URBinLAB research group, his interests include urban and territorial design with a focus on the relationship of infrastructure with public space, especially in the scope of metropolitan territories. Principal Investigator of the FCT funded research project ‘MetroPublicNet: A Metropolitan Public Space Network to support the robust, low-carbon and cohesive city’. Metrópoles Ciência Prize in 2016, for his research on Lisbon Metropolitan Area.

Tomás Nunes, CIAUD, Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design, Faculdade de Arquitetura, Universidade de Lisboa

Tomás G.P. Nunes, architect and urbanist, founder of “A.R.Q.U. Architecture and Urbanism”. His architectural journey started at the University of Lisbon in 2010 in Urbanism. In 2015, his Erasmus semester in Venice sparked a passion for urban complexity. Graduating in 2018 with a Master's in Urbanism, with the thesis "The Historic Center of Melides." Upon completing his academic journey, was invited to join as a researcher, to developed the academic project focusing on modern prison systems for the 21st century in the FAUL. In 2021, he joined the FCT-funded "MetroPublicNet" project, inspiring his PhD pursuit in Urbanism at FAUL.

José Duarte, CIAUD, Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design, Faculdade de Arquitetura, Universidade de Lisboa

José Duarte has a degree in Architecture from the School of Architecture, University of Lisbon (FA ULisboa) and at the School of Architecture, Design and Urbanism, University of Buenos Aires (FADU UBA). He is a PhD candidate and Research Fellow in the MetroPublicNet research project at the School of Architecture, University of Lisbon. His research interests focus on the study of the form of the Portuguese riverside city. His work seeks to establish the relationship between riverside urban systems and the typologies of buildings and public space.

Ana Beja da Costa, CIAUD, Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design, Faculdade de Arquitetura, Universidade de Lisboa

Ana Beja da Costa is a Landscape Architect, PhD in Landscape Architecture and Urban Ecology from the School of Agriculture, Universidade de Lisboa (2020), and currently a full-time Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the MetroPublicNet research project, at the Lisbon School of Architecture. She has continuously practiced as a Landscape Architect in Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal, and participated in research projects on landscape design and ecology applied to human settlements, in Timor-Leste, India, Ghana and Mozambique. Holds a postgraduate Master degree in Human Settlements (KU Leuven, 2008) and Landscape Architecture Master (ISA, Universidade de Lisboa, 2005).

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Published

2024-12-01

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Vol. 1 No. 15 (2024): Movilidad en movimiento

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