top of page

Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies

CITIES AND
TERRITORIES

CITIES AND
TERRITORIES

TEAM

Miguel Magalhães

Cities and Territories

Associate Researcher

Mónica Pacheco

Cities and Territories

Integrated Researcher

Nuno Grancho

Cities and Territories

Integrated Researcher

Nuno Miguel Rodrigues

Cities and Territories

Integrated Researcher

Nuno Miguel Tavares da Costa

Cities and Territories

Integrated Researcher

Patrícia Amorim

Cities and Territories

Associate Researcher

Patrícia Bento D'Almeida

Cities and Territories

Integrated Researcher

Paula André

Cities and Territories

Integrated Researcher

Paula Cristina da Silva Barros

Cities and Territories

Assistant Researcher

Paula Guerra

Cities and Territories

Associate Researcher

Paula Moldovan

Cities and Territories

Integrated Researcher

Paulo Manta Pereira

Cities and Territories

Associate Researcher

Paulo Tormenta Pinto

Cities and Territories

Integrated Researcher

Pedro Casanova

Cities and Territories

Associate Researcher

Pedro Costa

Cities and Territories

Integrated Researcher

PROJECTS
RUC

2026 — 2027

Radical Urban Cultures. Exploring the political ecologies of urban-food-soil entanglements in the Anthropocene through Natural Wine

HOUSING FREEDOM

2026 — 2031

Housing as a Tool for Freedom: A Future Away from Incarceration

Homes2live

2025 — 2025

Inhabiting the Revolution: Perspectives on social transformations and spatial production from the squatted houses of Amendoeiras neighbourhood, in Lisbon

All@Cityscape

2025 — 2029

All@Cityscape

LabourMap-Macao

2025 — 2025

Mass labour impact on Public Works in Macau under Portuguese administration (1849-1999)

GEBALIS

2025 — 2025

GEBALIS - Impact evaluation

HAT

2025 — 2028

Hyping Agriculture and Transit (HAT) in 15-minute Cities (15mC) – Food-growing public transport-oriented communities driving urban transitions as green Proximity Oriented Developments (PODs)

UrbanFrictions

2025 — 2026

Algorithmic frictions in the contemporary metropolis

CdM

2025 — 2028

Comédias do Minho

Articul_desaf

2024 — 2026

Articulations and challenges of Brazilian researchers in the production of knowledge and international cooperation in the areas of social sciences and humanities in Portuguese universities

Technopolitics

2024 — 2026

Technopolitics of Participation - Overview of counter-hegemonic housing policies and practices in the Brazilian and Portuguese contexts

2023.07870.CEECIND

2024 — 2031

Displaced Survival and Neoliberalism from below. The Nexus of Migration, Labour, and Housing Struggles of Migrant Women in Portugal and Angola

O lugar da Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves

2024 — 2024

Levantamento documental, conceção e redação do discurso da exposição "O lugar da Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves”: Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves

UVACD

2024 — 2024

“Unidos Venceremos!” Arte e Comunidade em Debate - Projeto de Produção artística colaborativa

NPN – Novo Portugal Novo

2024 — 2024

Portugal Novo Housing Scheme – Study

ERC-ArchLabour

2024 — 2029

Architecture, Colonialism and Labour. The role and legacy of mass labour in the design, planning and construction of Public Works in former African territories under Portuguese colonial rule

JAM

2024 — 2025

Service provision for Monitoring and Evaluation of project 'JAM! Jovens + Artes = Mudança!'

HybGen

2024 — 2024

Young generations trapped in hybrid lifestyles: Challenges in ways of living and working towards the urban green care in Lisbon and Oslo

SOLVE-H

2024 — 2027

SOLVE-H - Mapping social value of
participation in collaborative housing: From
a knowledge-based to evidence-based
perspective

Network for Equality

2024 — 2025

Equality Local Authorities Network Training

RESTART

2023 — 2025

Making visible public space in the extensive city: mapping challenges and opportunities for the urban transition

O Ato Ciensível

2023 — 2023

O Ato Ciensível

TransHERITAGE

2023 — 2024

Transformative Religious Heritage. Bridging Northern and Southern Europe Approaches

RETRANSLATES

2023 — 2025

Reflexiones, desde Europa, sobre la arquitectura en España: proyectos urbanos, equipamientos publicos, diseño e intervenciones en el patrimonio (1976-2006)

MHHPI

2023 — 2029

Beyond Modern Housing Heritage of Portuguese Influence, an Optimistic Architecture for Living. Comparative and Multi-Situated Perspectives on Modern Dwellings and Surroundings

WomArchStruggle

2023 — 2024

Women architects in former Portuguese colonial Africa: gender and struggle for professional recognition (1953-1985)

ExPORT

2023 — 2025

Exporting Portugal: Estado Novo cultural diplomacy and rebranding strategies in the United States (1933-1974)

N.A.

2022 — 2023

Socioeconomic characterization of households residing in the neighborhoods of Portugal Novo, Horizonte and Cooperativas do Beato

Estudo de Avaliação de Impacto dos Institutos Superiores Politécnicos

2022 — 2023

Estudo de Avaliação de Impacto dos Institutos Superiores Politécnicos

Sandra Marques Pereira - Scientific Employment Stimulus Individual Project

2022 —

Sandra Marques Pereira - Scientific Employment Stimulus Individual Project

AA

2022 — 2023

Abrir Abril

VERÃO COM CIÊNCIA 2022

2022 — 2022

Apoio Especial Verão com Ciência - DC 2022

OILCD_LRS

2022 — 2022

Operações Integradas Locais em Comunidades Desfavorecidas — Loures Prestação de serviços de consultadoria técnica especializada, no âmbito da 2.º Fase das Operações Integradas em Comunidades Desfavorecidas na AML (Aviso N.º 01/C03-i06.02/2022 do PRR)

ARCHNeed

2022 — 2025

The Architecture of Need: Community Facilities in Portugal 1945-1985

SIZA_3CITY

2022 — 2024

Álvaro Siza’s collective housing: projects, contexts and experiences (Porto-Lisbon-New York)

UrbanoScenes

2022 — 2025

UrbanoScenes. Post-colonial imaginaries of urbanisation: A future-oriented investigation from Portugal and Angola

2021.02417.CEECINDL

2022 — 2028

Learning from the past: the importance of former housing participatory production for the coming years

Care(4)Housing

2022 — 2025

A care through design approach to address housing precarity in Portugal

ESPON Covid-19

2021 — 2022

Territorial Impacts of Covid-19 and Policy Responses in European Regions and Cities - Portugal

BIPZIP 2021-29

2021 — 2023

Sai da Caixa Armador

NUTRIMOVERE

2021 — 2022

Bairros Saudáveis

RIZOMA

2021 — 2022

Rizoma - Bairros Saudáveis

SIZA

2021 — 2024

The Critical Monumentality of Álvaro Siza: Projects of urban renovation after the 1998 Lisbon World Exposition (Expo98)

Habitar Siza

2021 — 2024

Habitar Siza: a experiência e interacção dos residentes com a arquitectura e as micro-tecnologias de Álvaro Siza

VERÃO COM CIÊNCIA

2021 — 2021

Apoio Especial Verão com Ciência - DC 2021

TRENDY PORTUGAL

2021 — 2022

TRENDY PORTUGAL - The Tourism Boom and its Effects on Creative and Cultural Activities, Creative Ecosystems and Knowledge Networks

ARTSBANK (CM BARREIRO)

2021 — 2022

ARTSBANK (CM BARREIRO)

ARTSBANK (BAÍA TEJO)

2021 — 2022

ARTSBANK (BAÍA TEJO)

ICA

2021 — 2023

Evaluation of "Plano Estratégico para o Cinema e a Produção Audiovisual Independente 2014-2018"

ERC-REArq.IB

2021 — 2026

European Research Council Starting Grant (GA949686)
ReARQ.IB - Built Environment Knowledge for Resilient, Sustainable Communities: Understanding Everyday Modern Architecture and Urban Design in the Iberian Peninsula (1939-1985)

STRONGER

2020 — 2024

Stronger Peripheries: A Southern Coalition / Sp

RE-DWELL

2020 — 2024

Delivering affordable and sustainable housing in Europe

Covid Gender: Projeto 121.

2020 — 2020

Como ficar em casa? Intervenções imediatas de combate à Covid-19 em bairros precários da AML

PARALLEL II

2020 — 2021

Parallel monitoring - second cycle

F-ATLAS

2020 — 2024

Franciscan Landscapes: the Observance between Italy, Portugal and Spain

IC_PS

2020 — 2021

Critical Inventory of Socialist Party Local Policy Marks

Joana Lages - Scientific Employment Stimulus Individual Project

2020 — 2026

(Re)housing. exploring innovative solutions to accommodate the urban poor

LXHABIDATA

2019 —

LXHABIDATA

Incubadora Popular d’Ajuda

2019 — 2020

Incubadora Popular d’Ajuda

ARTEMREDE

2019 — 2020

Estudo de Impactos da Atividade da Associação Artemrede - Fase I

RESHAPE

2019 — 2021

RESHAPE - Fostering a resarch group within the European project RESHAPE

PARALLEL I

2019 — 2019

Parallel monitoring - first cycle

CULTURA OEIRAS

2019 — 2020

Estratégias para a Cultura em Oeiras 2018-2027

COST ACTION 18137

2019 — 2023

European Middle Class Mass Housing

Nuno Grancho - Scientific Employment Stimulus Individual Project

2019 — 2025

Asia on the move: two-way Processes, Data and Legacy of Architecture and Urbanism from former Portuguese Colonial Territories in South Asia

Andrea Pavoni - Scientific Employment Stimulus Individual Project

2019 — 2025

Uncomfortable Commons: the paradigm of comfort and the promise urban commons: a conceptual, critical and empirical exploration

NT MAG

2018 — 2024

Maria Assunção Gato - 'Norma Transitória' Individual Project

NT SMP

2018 — 2022

Sandra Marques Pereira - 'Norma Transitória' Individual Project

MCMH

2018 — 2022

Middle Class Mass Housing in Europe, Africa and Asia

The Grand Projects

2018 — 2022

Architectural and Urbanistic Operations after the 1998 Lisbon World Exposition

Culture LX

2018 — 2018

Strategic definition and reflection on the cultural sector in Lisbon

National Fund for Building Rehabilitation

2018 — 2018

National Fund for Building Rehabilitation

Printed photography. Image and propaganda in Portugal (1934-1974)

2017 — 2019

PTDC/CPC-HAT/4533/2014

Patrícia Bento d'Almeida - Pós-Doc

2017 — 2023

The Portuguese National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC) and the History of Research in Architecture

Ana Silva Fernandes - Pós-Doc

2017 — 2020

Common Spaces. Between public works and self-produced housing: collective mobilization for urban qualification in Mozambique

Inês Lima Rodrigues - Pós-Doc

2017 — 2023

Monographic Modern Trilogy: Vieira da Costa, Simões de Carvalho, Castro Rodrigues

SPLACH

2017 — 2021

Spatial planning for change

RURACTION

2016 — 2021

Social Enterpreneurship in Structurally Weak Rural Regions: Analysing Innovative Troubleshooters in Action

CREATOUR

2016 — 2019

Creative Tourism Development in Small Cities and Rural Areas

COAST TO COAST

2016 — 2019

Late Portuguese Infrastructural Development in Continental Africa (Angola and Mozambique): Critical and Historical Analysis and Postcolonial Assessment

Flanêur - New urban narratives

2015 — 2017

2015-1665/001-001

REV

2014 — 2015

Rester en Ville

Transformação da estrutura social e urbana das áreas Metropolitanas de Lisboa e do Porto no período de 1950 a 2011

2014 — 2024

Transformação da estrutura social e urbana das áreas Metropolitanas de Lisboa e do Porto no período de 1950 a 2011

MEMO PTDC/EMS-ENE/2197/2012

2013 — 2015

MEMO - Evolution of the Lisbon metropolitan area metabolism. Lessons towards a Sustainable Urban Future.

COPING

2013 — 2013

Qualitative study on coping strategies in the Crisis: How do Portuguese citizens cope with economic shock?

LLM - Homes for the biggest number: Lisbon, Luanda, Macao

2013-2025

PTDC/ATP-AQI/3707/2012

The Site of Discourse

2013 — 2015

PTDC/CPC-HAT/4894/2012

EGEAC

2013 — 2014

Estudo sobre Públicos dos Equipamentos e Eventos geridos pela EGEAC

ENRAIZ’ARTE

2013 — 2015

ENRAIZ'arte

PERIURBAN

2012 — 2015

Peri-urban areas facing sustainability challenges: scenario development in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon

The Colonial Urbanization Offices: Architectural Culture and Practice

2010 — 2013

PTDC/AUR-AQI/104964/2008

This Group focuses its research on the territorial dimensions of contemporary socioeconomic, environmental and cultural change, analysing its complex restructuring mechanisms at the light of their spatiality, their territorial embeddedness and their spatial-morphological dimensions, and framing them in the scope of the promotion of multidimensional sustainable development processes.


The strategy for deepening the knowledge about the dynamics of change in spatial and territorial terms is based on the acknowledgment of the diversity of logics, processes and actors that produce and appropriate these processes. This is always done from a triple perspective, involving (i) the analysis of the "dynamics" themselves; (ii) the understanding of the regulation/planning issues and the aspects related to urban/territorial action and “policy-making"; and (iii), a "reflexive" consciousness of the ways these spaces are worked and studied.

Thematic Lines:

2.1. Creativity, Culture and Territory;

2.2. Representations and discourse on architecture and territory;

2.3. Ways of Living, Society and Architectural Culture;

2.4. Recompositions, Metropolitan Change, and Housing;

2.5. Territorial Governance, Spatial Planning and Socio-spatial Intervention;

2.6. Urban Morphology and Sustainability

COORDINATION

Pedro Costa

bottom of page