Urban Studies (NETURB)

Coordinator
Jorge Silva Macaísta Malheiros
Professor Associado

The NETURB team has researchers particularly interested in the study of both the urban change's dynamics (actors, processes and policies) and the local processes in their specific context and in relaton with the global trends. The main focus is cities but some studies may encompass the urban systems as well, specially when they highlight the understanding of relations between territories.
We privilege comparative studies and multi-scalar analysis without restrictions in locational terms. Portuguese cities, but also systematic and comparative analysis of Mediterranean, European, African, and Brazilian cities.
We have senior researches with important experience both in teaching and research and young researchers. We are open and strongly encourage PhD students to to their theses on our priority subjects:
- competitiveness, internationalization and new urban activities
- retail, consumption and the appropriation of urban space
- urban regeneration, public space and imagery
- socio-spatial fragmentation of urban space
- problematic neighborhoods
Besides academic projects we are also engaged in applied projects, mainly about urban policies.

Website of the research cluster: http://www.ceg.ul.pt/neturb/

Objectives
Research Team
Projects

Objectives

The research programme of this group includes both theoretical production and applied research in urban studies with the following objectives:
- to develop a theoreticl and methodological framework to the understanding of urban transformation
- to highlight the urban restructuring processes with different analytical perspectives: (i) the competitiveness, criativity and innovation ; (ii) the representations and different ways of space appropriation by cityzens; the socio-spatial fragmentation, cohesion and diversity
- to analyse portuguese experiences of urban regeneration with different resilience levels: waterfronts, old industrial districts, historic centres, deprived neighborhoods
- to inform and evaluate policies under the new strategies for city development and new governance practices' framework.

Last update on 03-02-2011