New working spaces in Lisbon from a chrono-urbanism planning perspective

In the last two decades, scholars and planning practitioners have been discussing chrono-urbanism approaches trying to respond to urban sprawl and proposing new urban models based on proximity and access to essential goods, services and welfare opportunities for city residents (Guzman et al., 2021). The COVID-19 pandemic brought this theme to the spotlight, mainly through the 15 minute (15’) city concept (Moreno et al., 2021; Pozoukidou and Chatziyiannaki, 2021) as a way to promote more sustainable, livable and healthy cities. Furthermore, the pandemic has significantly impacted how and where people live and work (Florida, Rodríguez-Pose and Storper, 2021), which is expected to extend beyond the present moment. However, the role of New Workspaces (NWS) that proliferate in our cities (e.g., coworking spaces, fab labs, incubators, maker spaces, etc.) and their potential for creating more sustainable and livable neighbourhoods have not been satisfactorily discussed in these approaches. Choosing a working space to work at a 15' distance (on foot or by bike) from home and accessible to a variety of urban functions can have various impacts on our neighbourhoods, as well as changing mobility patterns and improving people's quality of life (e.g., promoting work-life balance and leaving space for healthier lifestyles. The study presented here is part of a broader investigation (see Di Marino et al., 2022). Driven by increased remote work and flexible work arrangements for a wide range of work activities and users, it has favoured the emergence of new types of workspaces. Some of these reflect the specificities of other sectors, such as the tourism and hospitality industry or the new demands of the workforce (e.g. coliving spaces). To discuss the recent chrono-urban approaches applied to urban planning and the growing and increasingly diverse phenomenon of NWS, the city of Lisbon is empirically examined. To this end, the investigation carried out included identifying and mapping the diversity of NWS, a qualitative analysis of Lisbon planning documents and interviews with key informants, as well as a spatial analysis of accessibility, proximity, density and diversity of different urban functions in the 15' around the NWS.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Evolution of New Working Spaces Changing Nature and Geographies

The edited book is composed by two sections: the first describes the main typologies of NeWSps and the evolution of this phenomenon, and the second focuses on NeWSps location and its evolution. The book fills the gap in the literature on NeWSp typologies and geographical patterns

Coworking in Lisbon: Experiences of collaboration and sharing on changing urban contexts

As innovative and creative ecosystems, Coworking Spaces (CWS) show high adaptability and recovery capacity in facing global event disruptions. This article is an exploratory study that aims to approach the development of coworking spaces in the city of Lisbon. It investigates the location patterns and adaptation of such ecosystems in Lisbon, by mapping the phenomenon and examining its spatio-temporal dynamics that was influenced by the urbanisation phases of the city, as well as the development and planning policies designed over the years. Starting from a broader view of CWS location in the city, this article moves on to present two particular cases, implemented in a different time and socio-economic circumstances in different parts of the city: LxFactory and The Creative Hub. This study is part of a broader contribution to COST Action (CA)18214 "The geography of the new workspaces and the impact on the periphery".info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Creative-based strategies in small cities: a case-study approach

The article intends to contribute to the literature on the relation between small cities and the creative economy in Europe. It aims to identify some dimensions and variables that need to be considered when approaching the capability of these small territories to attract creative people and businesses, surpassing the metropolitan-biased approaches oriented to the context of large cities. The research work is based on a case study methodology, centred on the comparative analysis of the small cities of Óbidos (Portugal), Barnsley UK) and Jyväskylä (Finland). The results of this investigation emphasise the context-specific nature of creative-based policies and stress the importance of some key success factors, such as governance and institutional arrangements, quality of life, entrepreneurship and networks

Equivalence between the Lovelock-Cartan action and a constrained gauge theory

We show that the four-dimensional Lovelock-Cartan action can be derived from a massless gauge theory for the $SO(1,3)$ group with an additional BRST trivial part. The model is originally composed by a topological sector and a BRST exact piece and has no explicit dependence on the metric, the vierbein or a mass parameter. The vierbein is introduced together with a mass parameter through some BRST trivial constraints. The effect of the constraints is to identify the vierbein with some of the additional fields, transforming the original action into the Lovelock-Cartan one. In this scenario, the mass parameter is identified with Newton's constant while the gauge field is identified with the spin-connection. The symmetries of the model are also explored. Moreover, the extension of the model to a quantum version is qualitatively discussed.Comment: 17 pages. No figures. Final version accepted for publication at the EPJ

A ten years analysis of cork oak (Quercus suber L.) afforestation projects in the Mediterranean region of centre-eastern of Portugal

Portuguese forest area has a great expression being around 39%. Since the last centuries the Quercus suber L.(cork oak) areas have increased, reaching to 715 922 ha (23%) according to the last National forest inventory. Afforestation programmes financed by the European Union and the existing protection laws for the species are one of the main reasons for this increase. These efforts are important to promote for these stands a distribution by age class that ensure cork oak forest sustainability (only 14% of the existing even-aged stands are young stands with less than 10 years). In this study, the programme – Afforestation of Agricultural Land – in the region of Beira Interior Sul was analysed, to assess afforestation success during the period of 2001 to 2011