- Lisbon at a turning point: metropolitan patterns, trends and cultures   479 kb by    Morgado, Sofia & Santos, João Rafael & Moreira, Inês | smorgado@fa.utl.pt    Short Outline The paper presents the overall structure and preliminary findings of the research project Forms of metropolitan spatial production in Lisbon aimed at discussing recent metropolitan development, adding to previous research on its morphogenesis and comparative studies with other metropolises. Abstract The paper presents the overall structure and preliminary findings of the research project Forms of metropolitan spatial production in Lisbon, being currently developed by the team of Murbs – metropolitan studies and forms of urbanization research group (Faculty of Architecture/ Technical University of Lisbon). The research project stems from the opportunity to discuss recent metropolitan development under the light of new census data (2011) and of an ongoing revision of plans at the regional and municipal scales, adding to previous research on the morphogenesis and development of metropolitan Lisbon and comparative studies with other metropolises (Font, 2007). Literature and previous research have shown the contours of leading processes of urban growth in different periods of metropolitan development. Until mid-20th century by resorting to urban contiguity, then by introducing spatial disjunction and functional specialization, as a reaction to modern city concepts. However, a third period starts evolving from the late 90’s onwards, with characteristics which, so far, may only be sensed. A critical and conceptual update on the urban production course of action and respective planning has been conducted, having in mind innovative approaches in the international panorama. Exploring and renewing the conceptual and critical framework regarding multilevel planning for the metropolis, over the last decade, under the scope of EU recommendations and National policies are also envisaged. In the face of territorial transformations which have been consistently perceived, and taking the opportunity opened by the 2011 census data and the revision of several planning documents at regional and municipal level, the team developed an update of cartography (M888 series, 2009), resorting to previously tested methodology. Due to its specificity, in definition and time span, this cartography is considered both as a result – by extending a vision of a certain territorial development in time – and as a tool for further research in two dimensions: (1) contribution to the definition of a metropolitan design and morphology, and inherent epistemology; (2) as a basis to share and to cross with other data, for instance, by resorting to GIS potentialities. Over the last years, individual research lines (e.g. PhD and Post-doctoral research) have been contributing to the global core, contributing to the identification of topics where “change” is critically acknowledged. Further developments will allow for a multifaceted synthesis, exploring plural and transversal findings. The paper will specifically address 1). Configurations and territorial trends in metropolitan Lisbon 1940-2011, with an emphasis on the 21st century; 2) Planning culture and planning system in Portugal, where Urbanism holds a representative role regarding the European context; 3) Questions and Debate: from metropolitan planning to metropolitan design. The research is also being accompanied by several academic and research events in which design and debate have been introduced, in partnership with municipal and central government authorities, and under the scope of networks such as AESOP and ISOCARP (some of them available at: http://metropolis.fa.utl.pt/metropolis.htm). References: GEORGE, P., MORGADO, S., 2007, Área Metropolitana de Lisboa 1975-2001. ‘De la monopolaridad a la matricialidad emergente’ In: Font, A. (ed.), La explosión de la ciudad. Transformaciones territoriales en las regiones urbanas de la Europa Meridional, Madrid: Min. de Vivienda. TATOM, j., STAUBER, J. ed., 2009, Making the Metropolitan Landscape, New York: Routledge. SANTOS, J.R., 2012, Spaces of infrastructural mediation: Interpretation and design in the production of the urban in the metropolitan territory of Lisbon, PhD Thesis in Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon MORGADO, S. 2012, «Transformação, segregação e projeto de um espaço limítrofe». In Marcello Magoni, ed, Cooperare attraverso l’Atlantico. Analisi, strategie e progetti per la riqualificazione dei margini urbani nei paesi latini europei e americani, Milão: Libreria CLUP. 236 pp./63-74 pp. Keywords Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2013: Frontiers of Planning - Evolving and declining models of city planning practice   Click to open the full paper as pdf document   Click to send an email to the author(s) of this paper