NEW PUBLICATION
SÍLVIA VIEGAS CO-EDITED THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL ‘CITIES, COMMUNITIES, AND TERRITORIES’
Researchers Sílvia Viegas (CIAC/UAlg) and Sílvia Jorge (CiTUA-IST) were in charge of the 45th edition of the journal Cities, Communities, and Territories. Recently published under the theme “Access to housing and Covid-19: readings from the metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto”, the journal is a thematic dossier about access to proper and adequate housing in Portugal, specifically in the metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto.
This edition is the result of the intersection of four research projects (three individual and one collective): “INSEhRE 21. Socio-spatial and housing inclusion of refugees in Europe today: lessons from the African diaspora in Portugal”, carried out by Sílvia Leiria Viegas at the Center for Social Studies (University of Coimbra) and “Refugee Research for (Post)Covid-19. National Measures and Local Actions in the Algarve: a Digital Tour for Access to Adequate Housing and Living Conditions”, currently hosted at CIAC; “Housing as 1st right: facing housing precariousness in contemporary Europe. Contributions from the Portuguese reality”, an ongoing project led by Sílvia Jorge, at CiTUA (Instituto Superior Técnico da University of Lisbon); and “Middle-Class Mass Housing in Europe, Africa, and Asia,” a collective project in which both researchers participate.
Six scientific articles are joined by two interviews on the topic, a review, and two critical testimonies: one on the right to housing and intervention practices from the experience of the housing collective today; and another on the legacy of Nuno Teotónio Pereira in the year that marks his centenary. It intends, therefore, to celebrate and contribute to empowering voices that highlight the importance of his legacy in the general framework of contemporary architecture in Portugal.
Cities, Communities, and Territories is an academic journal in the scientific field of urban studies that was created in 2000 by a team of researchers from the former Center for Territorial Studies (Iscte). Based on the plurality of theoretical perspectives and disciplinary approaches to city analysis, enshrined in the multidisciplinary scientific area of Urban Studies, CITY seeks to deepen knowledge about urban problems and policies to be able to intervene and, in general, about the processes of transformation of Cities, Communities, and territories.
