Towards a Metropolitan Public Space Network

João Rafael Santos is an Architect and Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa. As a member and co-coordinator of URBinLAB research group, his interests include urban and territorial design with a focus on the relationship of infrastructure with public space, especially in the scope of metropolitan territories. João is the Principal Investigator of the FCT funded research project ‘MetroPublicNet: A Metropolitan Public Space Network to support the robust, low-carbon and cohesive city’. He received the Metrópoles Ciência Prize in 2016, for his research on Lisbon Metropolitan Area. Maria Matos Silva is Assistant Professor and coordinator of the Masters degree in Landscape Architecture at the School of Agriculture, Universidade de Lisboa (2022-). She graduated in Landscape Architecture (Universidade de Lisboa, 2007) and has a Master’s (2010) and PhD degree (2016) from the University of Barcelona, where she focused on Urban and Public Space Design. Since 2016, she has been an Integrated Researcher at CIAUD. Currently, Maria is the Co-Principal Investigator of the FCT funded research project MetroPublicNet. Ana Beja da Costa is a landscape architect with a PhD degree in Landscape Architecture and Urban Ecology from the School of Agriculture, Universidade de Lisboa (2020). She is currently a full-time Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the MetroPublicNet research project, at the Lisbon School of Architecture. She has continuously practiced as a landscape architect in Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal, and participated in research projects on landscape design and ecology applied to human settlements, in Timor-Leste, India, Ghana and Mozambique.

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Introduction

By the editors

1. Public space as network

Ana Beja da Costa and João Rafael Santos

2. Public space as an urban policy agenda? Policies, funding, and soft planning in Lisbon Metropolitan Area

Cristina Cavaco, Luis Sanchez Carvalho and João Rafael Santos

VIEWPOINT I. On Metropolitan Landscapes: a conversation with João Nunes

João Nunes, with João Rafael Santos and Ana Beja da Costa

Part I. Atlas of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area Public Spaces

4. Scales, methods, and representations

João Rafael Santos, Ana Beja da Costa, Marina Carreiras, David Vale and Cristina Delgado Henriques

5. [Scale #1] The metropolitan scale

João Rafael Santos, Marina Carreiras and Ana Beja da Costa

6. [Scale #2] 24 Case Studies

João Rafael Santos, Ariana Marques da Silva, Tomás G.P. Nunes, José Duarte, Ana Beja da Costa, João Silva Leite and Maria Manuela da Fonte

7. [Scale #3] The intermediate scale. A territorial sample

João Rafael Santos, José Duarte and Ana Beja da Costa

8. Territorial ecologies of public space in Lisbon metropolis

João Rafael Santos

VIEWPOINT II. The Atlas of four landscapes. Thick Landscape as socio-ecological medium

Paola Viganò

Part II. Systemic Perspectives

10. How land meets water in river edge urban regeneration projects: building the perspective of a City of the Tagus Estuary

Caterina Anastasia

11. Designing for Water in Metropolitan Landscapes

Maria Matos Silva

12. Updating Roads to Streets. Transforming the in-between space to build public space

João Silva Leite

13. Public space and residential spaces: the construction of urbanity in the suburban space - proximity, integration and cohesion

Filipa Serpa, Maria Manuela da Fonte and Ariana Marques da Silva

14. Do light and heavy objects fall at the same speed?

The complex construction of Lisbon's metropolitan leisure and retail patterns

Alessia Allegri and Pedro Bento

15. Public Space and Food Production

Leonel Fadigas

VIEWPOINT III. Metropolitan streets as spaces in transformation through project logics of efficiency

Carles Llop

Part III. Beyond Lisbon

17. Diffuse urbanisation and public space network: inquiring on the scales and shapes of landscape structuring in the Porto Metropolitan Area

Sara Sucena and Rodrigo Coelho

18. The multifaceted construction of Barcelona’s metropolitan public space

Pedro Bento and Miquel Martí Casanovas

19. From Brussels Metropolis to the National Park as eco-urban figure.

Studies on the Senne and the Sonian

Wim Wambecq and Bruno De Meulder

20. Metropolitan Park Constellations of Ecological Systems: Lessons from Ho Chi Minh City

Kelly Shannon

VIEWPOINT IV. Urban cosmopolitanism and public spaces

João Seixas

Part IV. Designing the metropolis with public space

22. A Territorial Design Toolbox for Metropolitan Public Space

João Rafael Santos, Ana Beja da Costa and Maria Matos Silva

23. Manifesto for a Resilient, Cohesive, and Cosmopolitan Metropolis

João Rafael Santos, on behalf of the MetroPublicNet Team

Index