What is it about?
Research Approach – Cities are increasingly continuous urban areas. They are not only spaces of connections and flows but also places of fractures and gaps; Objective – To analyze the transformations taking place in the Porto Metropolitan Area; Hypothesis – The ‘donut’ pattern of development is useful to analyze the present development of the metropolitan area; Methods – Literature reviews, statistics, semi-structured interviews with practitioners. EuroConference – the European City in Transition at Bauhaus University, Weimar
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Why is it important?
Porto’s metropolitan area was greatly affected by being the second most important urban area in the country and new planning mechanisms and strategies were needed to attempt to fully close the activities and spatial gap in the city of Porto.
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Three principles for successful metropolitan governance are: research and intelligence gathering, a strategy or vision, and a leadership role.
Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP
Ulster University Belfast
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This page is a summary of: A Study of Porto’s Polycentric Metropolitan Development and Governance at the Turn of the Millennium, International Journal of Regional and Local History, July 2020, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/20514530.2020.1835060.
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