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Pereira, S. M. (2016). Mass housing in Lisbon: sometimes it works. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. 32 (3), 513-532

S. D. Pereira,  "Mass housing in Lisbon: sometimes it works", in Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 513-532, 2016

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	author = "Pereira, S. M.",
	title = "Mass housing in Lisbon: sometimes it works",
	journal = "Journal of Housing and the Built Environment",
	year = "2016",
	volume = "32",
	number = "3",
	doi = "10.1007/s10901-016-9525-2",
	pages = "513-532",
	url = "http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10901-016-9525-2"
}

TY  - JOUR
TI  - Mass housing in Lisbon: sometimes it works
T2  - Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
VL  - 32
IS  - 3
AU  - Pereira, S. M.
PY  - 2016
SP  - 513-532
SN  - 1566-4910
DO  - 10.1007/s10901-016-9525-2
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AB  - Unlike some European countries, high-rise housing estates have been quite
neglected within the Portuguese research agenda. This is partially explained by one of its
main national specificities: as many of these estates were developed by the private sector,
their major target was the broad spectrum of the middle classes. Therefore, it was not
identified as a research priority in the same way as social or illegal housing. Nevertheless,
as an emblematic housing type of Lisbon’s suburbanisation that boomed in the (1974)
Revolution period, its longitudinal study is an important tool to further knowledge of the
social and urban history of contemporary Portugal. This article explores high-rise housing
in Portugal (the context of its appearance, development and specificities) through the study
of a paradigmatic case: Portela in the north periphery of Lisbon. This case is a contrast with
the most visible trajectory of high-rise estates, marked by decay and embraced by stigma:
therefore the article also focuses on analysing the factors, dynamics and indicators of its
positive trajectory. Here, the analysis explores the context in which the estate developed,
the social profile of its inhabitants, their perceptions of it and their daily-life practices by
means of both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies.
ER  -