Title

Towards a Metropolitan Public Space Network: lessons, projects and prospects from Lisbon

Editor(s)

João Rafael Santos, Maria Matos Silva, Ana Beja da Costa

Author(s)

various authors 

The book establishes a systematized approach between recent public space improvement projects (its rationales and impacts at a metropolitan level) and future development projects; having Lisbon’s Metropolitan Area as a complex and dynamic research object, that informs the national and international knowledge and practice-oriented fields.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Foreword 

I. From the street to the metropolis

I.I Public space as network

João Rafael Santos & Ana Beja da Costa

I.II Territories and ecologies of public space in Lisbon metropolis

João Rafael Santos

I.III Public space as an urban policy agenda? Policies, funding and soft planning in Lisbon Metropolitan Area

Luis Sanches Carvalho, Cristina Cavaco & João Rafael Santos

II. Atlas of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area Public Spaces

João Rafael Santos, Ana Beja da Costa, Manuela da Fonte & Cristina Delgado Henriques

II.I Case studies

II.II Classifications

II.III Territorialization

II.IV Assemblage mechanisms

II.V Shapes, materials and colors in riparian limit regeneration projects: building the perspective of a City of the Tagus Estuary

Caterina Anastasia

Metropolitan Streets

Carles Llop

III. Thematic perspectives

III.I Public Space as a Climate Change adaptation tool

João Pedro Costa & Francesca Dal Cin

III.II Designing for Water in Metropolitan Landscapes

Maria Matos Silva

III.III Public Space and Food Production

Leonel Fadigas

III.IV Metropolitan soft mobility

David Vale

III.V Updating Roads to Streets. Transforming in-between space to build public space

João Silva Leite

III.VI Public space and residential spaces: proximity, integration, cohesion

Filipa Serpa & Manuela da Fonte

III.VII Do light and heavy objects fall at the same speed?

The complex construction of Lisbon's metropolitan leisure and retail patterns

Alessia Allegri & Pedro Bento

Metropolitan Landscapes

João Nunes

IV. Metropolitan perspectives

IV.I Diffuse urbanization and public space network: inquiring the scales and shapes of landscape structuring in Porto Metropolitan Area

Sara Sucena & Rodrigo Coelho

IV.II The multifaceted construction of Barcelona’s metropolitan public space

Pedro Bento & Miquel Martí Casanovas

IV.III From Brussels Metropolis to the National Park as eco-urban figure.

Studies on the Senne and Sonian

Wim Wambecq & Bruno De Meulder

Cosmopolitan Public Space

João Seixas

V. Designing Metropolitan Public Space

João Rafael Santos, Ana Beja da Costa & Maria Matos Silva

V.I Challenges & critical factors

V.II Experiences and speculations

V.III Priorities & guidelines

Research by design strategies for metropolitan areas: lessons, projects and prospects from Ho Chi Minh City

Kelly Shannon

Towards a Metropolitan Public Space Network in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area

References

Colophon