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Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies

RESEARCH THEMES

03

HOUSING
AND URBAN DYNAMICS

Housing dynamics and their socioeconomic and urban effects. The political response to the recent crisis in this area requires a comprehensive debate on new territorialities, habitat quality and forms of organising and producing public and domestic spaces.

RELATED PROJECTS
MCMH

2018 — 2022

Middle Class Mass Housing in Europe, Africa and Asia

National Fund for Building Rehabilitation

2018 — 2018

National Fund for Building Rehabilitation

Ana Silva Fernandes - Pós-Doc

2017 — 2020

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

SPLACH

2017 — 2021

Spatial planning for change

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

PERIURBAN

2012 — 2015

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

RELATED NEWS

Event

Arquitectura Aqui – Collective-Use Facilities in Portugal and Spain 1939-1985

11/03/2025

On 26 March 2025, a public presentation of the platform Arquitectura Aqui – Community, Proximity, Action: Collective-Use Facilities in Portugal and Spain, 1939–1985 will be held at Iscte.

Event

First Homes2Live Storytelling Workshop

10/03/2025

On 15 March, the Homes2Live project invites the residents of Bairro das Amendoeiras to take part in a conversation about the neighbourhood.

Event

Book Launch: Loures: As Casas da Revolução

24/02/2025

The launch of the book Loures: As Casas da Revolução will take place on 12 March at 5:30 PM at the Iscte Library.

News

CFP - Algorithmic frictions on platform urbanism: subjects, spaces and platforms

31/01/2025

The 'Algorithmic frictions on platform urbanism: subjects, spaces and platforms' is an in-person session that will take place within the RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Birmingham, UK. 26-29 August 2025.

News

"Housing as commons: sites of struggle and possibility" - New Issue of the CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios Journal

02/12/2024

'Housing as commons: sites of struggle and possibility', the new issue of the CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios'Journal, is now available.

The guest editors for this issue were Joana Pestana Lages and Saila-Maria Saaristo.

News

Diário de um Investigador Podcast featuring Ana Brandão

18/11/2024

Another episode of the Diário de um Investigador podcast is now available: 

Designing the City with Crayons: Ana Brandão and the Planning of Public Spaces.

News

The book Living in Lisbon, authored by Marta Sequeira

08/11/2024

The book Living in Lisbon, authored by Marta Sequeira, has just been shortlisted in the prestigious XIII Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BIAU). The event, this year under the theme 'Climates', highlights influential architectural works and projects that engage with the contemporary challenges of urban and territorial practice in Ibero-American countries.

News

Loures: As Casas da Revolução Exhibition

03/12/2024

Visit 'Loures: As Casas da Revolução' at the Arquivo Municipal de Loures, form November 2024 to April 2025, and get a unique perspective over the architecture and values that shaped democratic Portugal.

News

Presentation session for the Hybgen Project Research findings

28/10/2024

Presentation Session for the HybGen Project Research findings on the challenges related to housing, employment, and mobility currently faced by young adults.

Media

Ana Vaz Milheiro in Público

24/10/2024

Público newspaper has published an opinion article by Ana Vaz Milheiro, which features a critique of the renovation of the Centre for Modern Art (CAM) at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.

News

The Architecture of Need Conference at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

22/10/2024

'The Architecture of Need: Collective-Use Facilities and Community Service in the Twentieth Century Conference' will be held on 29 and 30 October 2024, in Room 2 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon.

News

Diário de um Investigador Podcast featuring Joana Lages

17/09/2024

Podcast Diário de um investigador is back. In this episode, we meet architect Joana Pestana Lages, who spoke about her work in housing and the importance of dialogue creation in social issues.

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