The Amendoeiras neighbourhood in Lisbon, also known as Chelas Zone I, was subject to extensive squatting in the wake of the 1974 revolution, whose occupants completed its construction. This territory thus provides a unique lens to analyse personal and collective agency and citizen participation in the revolution context, including the specific role played by women. Understanding the economic, political and social dynamics of these 50 years of life in democracy from the perspective of homes and their squatters is doubly significant: i) as a target of collective action that illustrates the spirit of the revolution, homes are a privileged material, historical and symbolic archive to analyse the socioeconomic changes that took place in society; ii) as elements of connection to the neighbourhood and the urban territory, homes are also key elements to frame the political, societal, generational and gender participation of individuals.

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In recent years the entire legal and regulatory basis of the Portuguese Planning System underwent an ambitious and far reaching reform. However, today like in the past, the major effort in the production of new legislation and regulation was not accompanied by a similar effort in the production of planning doctrine, here understood as a vast and coherent set of planning policies and implementation measures, able to improve, from a technical and scientific point of view, and under an evidence based approach, not only the quality of planning practice but also, and foremost,its proactive role, incorporating new and emerging topics and societal challenges and concerns, promoting change and opening new transition avenues into the future. This proactive role of planning, advocated here, contrasts with its traditional conservative standing in Portugal (and in other EU Member States), of looking backwards and passively accommodating, if not slowing down, change and the social and physical reform of our cities and metropolises.   Planning can, and should, constitute a transformative device in our cities in Europe and elsewhere, particularly in the present times and with a view into the long term. Indeed, current changes seem far more deep within the existing urban tissues experiencing profound recompositions of functions and activities, than in physical terms, strictly speaking,where past investments in infrastructures and in the built environment seemed to have exceeded the real demand and generated a surplus of the building stock that, some years later, still remains partially empty or underused.   The Spatial Planning for Change (SPLACH) programme draws on some of the main areas of knowledge of thre eresearch centres CITTA, DINÂMIA'CET-IUL and GOVCOPP. Two to three main areas of knowledge were identified for each centre: post carbon cities, transformative policies, spatial planning, socio-technical system, food security,services of general interest, tourism and modeli...

We propose an international comparative approach enabling similiar questioning of neighborhoods affected by changes whose the causes are, possibly, comparable (globalization, metropolisation, transformation of national and local governments), but also the consequences in terms of social effects and take on change. The relations between resilience and resistance in these four central European urban neighborhoods will be studied on the basis of the practices of residents and users, which we consider to be less of the traditional logic of the "springboard district" than of the existence of spheres of life. belonging and uses that go well beyond the neighborhood, and can be described as "socio-spheres", and be grasped through the notion of "scenes". The analysis will be based on interviews about the life course of individuals and families living in the neighborhood at the time of the survey, and particularly those who struggle to maintain themselves by developing residential strategies (according to family, friends, professionals), as well as to individuals and families whose presence in the public space and their attachment to the territory (manifested by their activities and practices of certain places) express and anchor their desire to have a free appeal. The goal of "staying in town" is therefore the backbone of cross-examination of 4 central districts of major European cities: Paris, Brussels Lisbon and Vienna. These interviews, 240 in number (60 per site), will be supplemented by site-based, system-based observations to the extent that they offer resistance / resilience catches. The "systems of places" thus drawn up are combined with "linkage systems" making it possible to describe the hospitality of the reception area, its amenities, and the possibility for some poor households to remain in the city center, despite, and possibly due to, metropolisation.