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Foregrounding Urban AgendasUrban Policies in Portugal

Foregrounding Urban Agendas: Urban Policies in Portugal [ThisUrban policychapterPortugal claims that a Portuguese national urban agendaUrban Agenda has been further consolidated and improved since the 1990s, having the European UnionEuropean Union as one of its major engine and drivers. After a first overview of the background on urban policiesUrban policy in PortugalPortugal, a number of policy programs were studied (Polis, Polis XXI and PortugalPortugal2020, among others), focusing on citiesCities and sustainable urban developmentSustainable urban development during the last three European UnionEuropean Union policy programming cycles. The analysis focuses, mainly, on the typology of interventions, including target areas and actors involved, their management, governanceGovernance models and implementation tools, in order to discuss major tendencies and alignments with internationalUrban Agenda urban agendasAgenda. Concepts such as sustainable development, place-based policy or integrated territorial development are at the core of the debate, along with the rhetorical mainstream developed at a European and international level. The chapter settles that, in the studied period, urban policiesUrban policy in PortugalPortugal were progressively released from pure physical actions to adopt a rather strategic, integral, governanceGovernance-based approach, encompassing community programs. The scaling up of the Portuguese national urban policyPortuguese national urban policy (NUP) happened at several levels, and now PortugalPortugal is considered as an explicit NUP holder, despite no consensus existing on the matter. ] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Foregrounding Urban AgendasUrban Policies in Portugal

Part of the The Urban Book Series Book Series
Editors: Armondi, Simonetta; De Gregorio Hurtado, Sonia
Cavaco, Cristina; Florentino, Rui; Pagliuso, Ana
Foregrounding Urban Agendas — Nov 1, 2019
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
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978-3-030-29072-6
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49 –73
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10.1007/978-3-030-29073-3_3
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Abstract

[ThisUrban policychapterPortugal claims that a Portuguese national urban agendaUrban Agenda has been further consolidated and improved since the 1990s, having the European UnionEuropean Union as one of its major engine and drivers. After a first overview of the background on urban policiesUrban policy in PortugalPortugal, a number of policy programs were studied (Polis, Polis XXI and PortugalPortugal2020, among others), focusing on citiesCities and sustainable urban developmentSustainable urban development during the last three European UnionEuropean Union policy programming cycles. The analysis focuses, mainly, on the typology of interventions, including target areas and actors involved, their management, governanceGovernance models and implementation tools, in order to discuss major tendencies and alignments with internationalUrban Agenda urban agendasAgenda. Concepts such as sustainable development, place-based policy or integrated territorial development are at the core of the debate, along with the rhetorical mainstream developed at a European and international level. The chapter settles that, in the studied period, urban policiesUrban policy in PortugalPortugal were progressively released from pure physical actions to adopt a rather strategic, integral, governanceGovernance-based approach, encompassing community programs. The scaling up of the Portuguese national urban policyPortuguese national urban policy (NUP) happened at several levels, and now PortugalPortugal is considered as an explicit NUP holder, despite no consensus existing on the matter. ]

Published: Nov 1, 2019

Keywords: National urban policies; Portugal; Urban regeneration; Sustainable urban development

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