O sector económico da cultura na Área Metropolitana de Lisboa. Aspectos locativos e implicações nas políticas urbanas

CULTURAL INDUSTRIES IN THE LISBON METROPOLITAN AREA: LOCATION FEATURES AND IMPLICATIONS ON URBAN POLICIES - This paper aims to examine the current situation and the recent development of cultural industries in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in view of the increasing international interest in this area.Two main conclusions emerged from the analysis. Firstly, we concluded that cultural industries are steadily increasing, showing rates above the Lisbon Metropolitan Area avarage in other industries. Secondly, a high degree of concentration of activities and jobs could also be observed mainly within the city of Lisbon. However one of the most important trends of the sector in recent years has been the deconcentration of activities with the development of different specialisations in the peripheral areas. The implications of this on urban policies are analysed in the last section of this paper

O Centro Histórico de Dublim (Irlanda) e a experiência de reabilitação de Temple Bar

THE DUBLIN HISTORIC CITY CENTRE AND THE EXPERIENCE OF TEMPLE BAR’S REHABILITATION: The aim of this paper is to present the experience of Temple Bar’s rehabilitation in Dublin. As one of the most popular neighbourhoods in Dublin’s historical city centre, Temple Bar has in the past undergone severe population decline coupled with a profound social, functional and environmental crisis. However, in the 1990s, one of Europe’s greatest urban rehabilitation success stories was to begin in Temple Bar. Within about a decade, it was able to draw residents once again, attract new activities, bring employment back and enhance Temple Bar’s urban environment. The culture cluster has played a truly innovative role in the strategy that was followed

imaginative geographies of Africa in a Portuguese travel magazine

This paper is about tourism, visual culture, and imperialism in the post-colonial present. International literature on these issues has been especially focused on the experience of British and French post-colonialism. Few studies have addressed this issue regarding other post-colonial realities. This paper runs counter to that fact by analysing the visual touristic discourse produced in the post-colonial Portugal. The paper examines the way the sub-Saharan Africa is represented in a Portuguese travel photo-magazine – the Blue Travel magazine – so as to verify the extent to which the ideology of colonialism continues to shape the post-colonial touristic discourse in this former colonizing country of the southern Europe. More than 522 photographs were analysed. Using visual methodologies, the paper concludes that many aspects of the photographs contain encoded encomiastic messages of colonialism and participate in a discursive construction of Africa that was clearly shaped by an imperialist gaze. The paper suggests that not only there is an obvious nostalgia for empire in the Portuguese touristic discourse on sub-Saharan Africa, but also that many imperialist myths continue to circulate diffusely within the Portuguese post-colonial society and to shape the way sub-Saharan Africa is touristically imagined.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

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Seeking the causes of urban ruination: An empirical research in four Portuguese cities

Urban ruination is an understudied feature in the life of cities. This article discusses its causes. Based on the study of four shrinking Portuguese cities (Lisbon, Barreiro, Guimarães and Vizela), and using Multiple Linear Regression Analysis as the statistical method, the structure of relationships among ruins, economic change, demographic change, social geography and the characteristics of buildings are discussed. Although the study concludes that ruination is a highly contingent phenomenon, the results show that of all the structural fac- tors, demographic ageing and the obsolescence of buildings (poor housing conditions) are the key causes of ruination in the four cities under study. Links between ruination and socio-spatial processes have also been identified.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

A geopoetic exploration of the Matinha vacant land, Lisbon

Our purpose in this communication is to present an exploration of the Matinha vacant land in Lisbon. Initially a sonic exploration, this endeavour would turn to the figure of the natural cyborg, an almost silent formation that thrives in the site, in the form of vegetal-technological hybrids.N/

An Approach to the Soundscapes of Urban Vacant Lands in Lisbon

In this paper, we will present preliminary results of our ongoing study on the soundscapes of vacant lands in Lisbon Eastern Zone (LEZ). Our methodology comprised two stages. Firstly, all the vacant lands of Lisbon municipality were identified and georeferenced using remote sensing methods and high-resolution aerial photography. In the second stage, a field survey with the purpose of characterising the morphology, vegetation, and animal and human occupation of the vacant lands was conducted, along with field recordings of their soundscapes. The results of our study include the classification of vacant lands and of their soundscapes. We argue that listening to the sounds of urban vacant lands defies traditional notions of the urban soundscape as dominated by anthrophonies.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Tourism in the global south: landscapes, identities and development

This book is the fourth of a series on ‘Tourism and Spatial Planning’ that the Centre for Geographical Studies (CEG) research group ‘Tourism, Culture and Space’ (TERRiTUR) has published: ‘Tourism, Innovation and Development’ (2008), ‘Niche Tourism’ (2009) and ‘Water and Tourism. Resources Management, Planning and Sustainability’ (2010). Our first acknowledgement is to our fellow contributors, who courteously and promptly responded to our requests, and who have provided the bulk of this book. There are also many other colleagues at CEG who contributed in various ways. We would like to acknowledge the support of José Manuel Simões, head of our research group ‘Tourism, Culture and Space’, and of Diogo Abreu, head of the Centre for Geographical studies. We are equally grateful to all those colleagues who have refereed the chapters contained in this volume, whose name remains anonymous for the purpose of maintaining integrity.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Overland tourism in the Istanbul to Cairo route:‘real holidays’ or McDonaldised niche tourism?

Since the beginning of the 1990s tourism scholars and academics have been claiming that tourism has changed. By and large the mid-1980s is generally considered the moment when that transformation occurred, or, at least, when it became noticeable. Urry (1990), one of earliest theorists who lead this debate, built an all-inclusive theory which frames the new trends in the tourism industry in the broader context of social transformations in the ‘Late Capitalism’ period, and consequently, tourism has been repeatedly considered to have changed because new forms of post-Fordist (or post-Modern) consumption have emerged [...]info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Chronicles from the wastelands: an exploration of the evental geographies of derelict urban areas

In this paper we propose to explore the life of urban wastelands. That is, we will unveil the actions that take place in these spaces, their human and non-human authors, and the dynamism that those actions produce in the space itself, provoking sensitive changes in the landscape.N/