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In recent years, Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA) witnessed the occurrence of various initiatives, highlighting an increasing interest and entrepreneurship in transforming the food system, at both municipal and civil society levels. As sustainability demands become increasingly global, it becomes pivotal for planning policy to understand the mechanisms through which urban actors are pioneering these new ambitions. This paper describes how global goals are being materialized by local actors and practices, insofar as their scope aims to transform this region’s food system. Our work is based on a three-fold objective: to characterize such initiatives; study how they’re suggesting new food planning agendas in the LMA; and systematize what possible future planning policy can learn from such insights. After an introduction to the territory’s planning context and research rationale, a methodological account is provided before completing with a comparing scenario, taken from a 2014 questionnaire among planning officials, with the discourses of 80 initiatives of the public and civil society sectors enquired in 2019. Finally, while using an analytical framework grounded on the recommendations of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Resources Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF), we flesh out some lessons for future planning policy aiming for long-term sustainability grounded on inter-municipal cooperation and mutual, continuous learning.

This article aims to explain the effects of the recent economic and financial crisis on housing conditions and the ability of Portuguese families to access housing. It also intends to discuss how the crisis is reconfiguring the housing patterns, in terms of access to housing and changes in public policies, questioning the predominant mode of access to housing based on homeownership. This article also discusses the role of social housing in the Portuguese housing system and the changes and challenges in this sector coming from the economic and financial constraints of families and the state. This article is structured in three parts. The first is an overview of the Portuguese housing system and social housing in particular, highlighting the conditions and reasons that led to a reduced social housing stock and to the predominance of homeownership. The second part discusses the impact of the crisis on families and the state, trying to demonstrate how the constraints on both are translated into (1) worsening housing conditions, (2) a diversification of groups struggling to access housing in the private market and (3) a reduction of affordable housing, pressing the social housing sector. Finally, the third part is a reflection on the changes that the crisis has had in the orientation of housing policies and their instruments, arguing that the patterns of the Portuguese housing system are changing with emphasis on the need to diversify the housing supply to increasingly diverse groups in housing need. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

The article is the result of the research project ‘Residential Trajectories and Metropolization: Continuities and Changes in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area’ and analyses the residential trajectories of families in Lisbon. Following some international studies, our overriding objective is to examine the relationship between housing dynamics and family and professional contexts related to moving house. We observe three generations (born between 1945–1954, 1955–1964 and 1965–1975) in central Lisbon and the northern and southern metropolitan areas. More specifically, this article aims to explore three fundamental dimensions: (1) the intensity of the residential mobility of households in Lisbon and the profiles associated with more and less mobility; (2) the typology of trajectories in relation to tenure status as well as an analysis of the profiles associated with each type of trajectory; and 3) the different reasons for moving house during the residential trajectory. The research outcomes on housing trajectories seem to indicate limited residential mobility due to the historical dynamics of the housing market in Portugal and the social and cultural options of families that tend to prefer home ownership. Moreover, the research indicates that family and social class are pertinent variables when analysing housing movements in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

The chapter presents typologies of peri-urban areas of Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA) regarding social and economic dimensions. These typol- ogies are the outcome of a trans-disciplinary research developed by the project PERI-URBAN involving different Portuguese universities, crossing academic fields and integrating the knowledge of stakeholders from diverse institutional and territo- rial (local and regional) backgrounds. By bridging science and society, trans- disciplinarity allows the translation of knowledge acquired in research into useful and relevant information for planners and decision-makers. The analysis reveals diverse socioeconomic realities demanding different and specific political approaches envisaging sustainable peri-urban territories in a changing world. The socioeconomy of peri-urban areas considers identities and lifestyle issues (e.g., age, family patterns, living and working conditions) and economic characteristics (e.g., main economic activities, economic organisation and structuring, attractiveness). The influence of a metropolitan area is expressed by continuing investments in peripheral areas that offer sources of labour and natural resources such as land. The presence of industries, services, logistics and distribution platforms, enterprises, housing, big store chains, etc., constitutes manifestations of this realm. Plus, and in parallel, the coexistence of a rural-agriculture matrix establishes a hybrid territory where distinct activities co-exist defining distinct degrees of specialisation/diversity of the economic tissue. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

From the results of a questionnaire to the potential demand for housing in a residential area of Lisbon, we intend to explore in this paper, patterns of housing demand with taking into account the current context of crisis and uncertainty surrounding the housing markets and societal evolution itself. Therefore, the sociological profiles of potential buyers / tenants are presented, exploring the relationship of certain residential options (in terms of location, house type, tenure and price) and the particular characteristics of individuals who want change their residential situation: socio-economic group, age, stage of life course and location of current residence. These data will be used as a pretext for a reflection on the characteristics of the current demand for housing in Lisbon, with particular emphasis, firstly, in search of emerging trends in demand (such as the increasing demand for rental) and the profiles associated with them, interpreting them in light of both the current constraints of the real estate market, or of cultural and social changes driving new attitudes and housing values and, secondly, the analysis of consolidated demand housing trends that have come to constrain several urban dynamics in structuring social and urban fabric of Lisbon metropolis (such as the tendency shown by many studies to a residential mobility characterized by geographical continuity).

Mantendo a abordagem de qualidade que tem vindo a ser desenvolvida em artigos anteriores desta revista, ou seja, a noção de que a qualidade de vida se refere a uma multiplicidade de aspectos relacionais entre os indivíduos, com as suas características pessoais e sociais, e o meio envolvente, entendido quer enquanto definidor das condições de vida quer possibilitando um conjunto de oportunidades e constrangimentos, interessa particularmente neste artigo perceber como os sujeitos avaliam, se apropriam e julgam os recursos pessoais e os do meio envolvente em termos de qualidade de vida, isto é, como constroem a sua noção de qualidade de vida. Trata-se, assim, de aprofundar as questões mais subjectivas presentes na construção da noção de qualidade de vida e respectivas formas de avaliação, dando conta de um percurso que, tendo tido como ponto de partida o "território", parece ter desembocado nos "sujeitos". Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

O presente ensaio pretende ser uma reflexão em torno do conceito de qualidade de vida procurando situar, em primeiro lugar, o contexto sociopolítico de desenvolvimento do tema da qualidade de vida para, num segundo momento, ressaltar os debates que hoje, como de resto, desde a sua emergência, atravessam a discussão sobre esta problemática. Assim, foca-se a clivagem fundamental entre as abordagens "objectivas" e "subjectivas", apresentando-se os argumentos pro e contra em relação a cada uma delas para se concluir da necessidade, hoje quase consensual, de ultrapassar esta dicotomia. Outro dos debates aqui referido tem a ver uma conceptualização da problemática da qualidade de vida a partir de uma "teoria das necessidades" ou de uma "teoria dos recursos" enfatizando-se as consequências, quer no plano analítico, quer no metodológico, de uma ou outra opção. Finalmente, este ensaio termina por fazer uma referência ao contexto actual de reemergência da problemática em questão que introduz a discussão sobre o plano a que dizem respeito as investigações actuais sobre qualidade de vida no âmbito de programas de monitorização estritamente articulados com as políticas públicas: trata-se de qualidade de vida dos indivíduos ou das sociedades ? Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ministério da Cultura Instituto Português do Livro e das Bibliotecas