Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA) may be considered a blend of ‘leading’ territories co-existing with ‘lagging territories’ where problems such as lack of land use planning, landscape disqualification, economic disadvantages, or social-spatial expulsion persist and remain partially unsolved (Need to disrupt the Resilience of an Uneven Geography) The Asynchrony between Planning Instruments / Public Policies and Urban Transformations across time may lead to the Loss of Relevance of Territorial Planning System as a strategic resource in the establishment of more sustainable territories (New Instruments for Old/New Challenges) The methodology of ranking indicators edge-values at different scales demonstrated to be useful allowing to map places where extreme territorial processes occur (systemic edges) questioning the role of general strategies in solving site-specific problems/aspirations (Public Polices vs. Space Policies) Overall statistical information is reliable but unadjusted to contemporary change, speed and degree of place particularities-There is a lack of information at Subsection Levels (namely in what concerns economic data and the secrecy to which it is subjected) undermining a complete high definition study- The period of time in witch census are made (10 years) are incompatible with the fast social-economic transformations (New ways of Producing and Democratizing Information) If planning/police action is exclusively driven by indicators average-values and administrative borders, it may be persistently pushing off-the-map, pockets of disadvantaged geographies, weighing statistical relevance against social urgency and hindering the path towards a more inclusive and hopeful city.

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Lisbon Metropolitan Area,Marginal Territories,Urban Planning

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• Social and Economic Geography - Social Sciences