Towards a Metropolitan Public Space Network

João Rafael Santos is 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 Master's 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.

• List of figuresList of tablesList of contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionBy the editors1. Public space as networkAna Beja da Costa and João Rafael Santos2. Public space as an urban policy agenda? Policies, funding, and soft planning in Lisbon Metropolitan AreaCristina Cavaco, Luis Sanchez Carvalho and João Rafael SantosVIEWPOINT I. On Metropolitan Landscapes: a conversation with João NunesJoão Nunes, with João Rafael Santos and Ana Beja da CostaPart I. Atlas of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area Public Spaces4. Scales, methods, and representationsJoão Rafael Santos, Ana Beja da Costa, Marina Carreiras, David Vale and Cristina Delgado Henriques5. [Scale #1] The metropolitan scaleJoão Rafael Santos, Marina Carreiras and Ana Beja da Costa6. [Scale #2] 24 Case StudiesJoão Rafael Santos, Ariana Marques da Silva, Tomás G.P. Nunes, José Duarte, Ana Beja da Costa, João Silva Leite and Maria Manuela da Fonte7. [Scale #3] The intermediate scale. A territorial sampleJoão Rafael Santos, José Duarte and Ana Beja da Costa8. Territorial ecologies of public space in Lisbon metropolisJoão Rafael SantosVIEWPOINT II. The Atlas of four landscapes. Thick Landscape as socio-ecological mediumPaola ViganòPart II. Systemic Perspectives10. How land meets water in river edge urban regeneration projects: building the perspective of a City of the Tagus EstuaryCaterina Anastasia11. Designing for Water in Metropolitan LandscapesMaria Matos Silva12. Updating Roads to Streets. Transforming the in-between space to build public spaceJoão Silva Leite13. Public space and residential spaces: the construction of urbanity in the suburban space - proximity, integration and cohesionFilipa Serpa, Maria Manuela da Fonte and Ariana Marques da Silva14. Do light and heavy objects fall at the same speed?The complex construction of Lisbon's metropolitan leisure and retail patternsAlessia Allegri and Pedro Bento15. Public Space and Food ProductionLeonel FadigasVIEWPOINT III. Metropolitan streets as spaces in transformation through project logics of efficiencyCarles LlopPart III. Beyond Lisbon17. Diffuse urbanisation and public space network: inquiring on the scales and shapes of landscape structuring in the Porto Metropolitan AreaSara Sucena and Rodrigo Coelho18. The multifaceted construction of Barcelona’s metropolitan public spacePedro Bento and Miquel Martí Casanovas19. From Brussels Metropolis to the National Park as eco-urban figure.Studies on the Senne and the SonianWim Wambecq and Bruno De Meulder20. Metropolitan Park Constellations of Ecological Systems: Lessons from Ho Chi Minh CityKelly ShannonVIEWPOINT IV. Urban cosmopolitanism and public spacesJoão SeixasPart IV. Designing the metropolis with public space22. A Territorial Design Toolbox for Metropolitan Public SpaceJoão Rafael Santos, Ana Beja da Costa and Maria Matos Silva23. Manifesto for a Resilient, Cohesive, and Cosmopolitan MetropolisJoão Rafael Santos, on behalf of the MetroPublicNet TeamIndex