Urban planning offers various design possibilities to solve fundamental challenges faced in urban areas. These include the need to physically renew old industrial and harbour riverside areas into liveable, inclusive and sustainable living spaces. This paper investigates the way urban planning policies have helped to renew the waterfront areas in the Lisbon metropolis in the past decades. For this purpose, the contribution of the European Union (EU) and national urban development plans over the past decades are analysed. The results demonstrate an intense renewal of the waterfront areas in the Lisbon metropolitan area (LMA), particularly in Lisbon over the past three decades into leisure, ecologic and touristic areas, vis-à-vis the previous industrial and harbour vocation

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Urban planning,Waterfront areas,Lisbon,Urban development,POLIS,Integrated sustainable urban development strategies

• Ciências Químicas - Ciências Naturais
• Ciências da Terra e do Ambiente - Ciências Naturais
• Outras Ciências Naturais - Ciências Naturais
• Engenharia do Ambiente - Engenharia e Tecnologia
• Geografia Económica e Social - Ciências Sociais

Esta publicação é um output do(s) seguinte(s) projeto(s):

• Operações arquitetónicas e urbanísticas depois da Exposição Internacional de Lisboa de 1998