The metropolises also have places. The case of the Setúbal Nascente neighborhood, Portugal

Abstract

The strategic approach is essential as a way to, from existing resources and the dynamics of actors, design credible scenarios for the future. These scenarios, far from enabling to divine the future, provide tools to build a significant part of that desired future. This renewed approach to the social neighborhoods that have been in crisis in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon has produced a number of consensual and innovative measures. This paper aims to describe the experience of the Strategic Plan for Setúbal Nascente (Portugal), which focused on one of the most emblematic social neighborhoods in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon. The Plan opted for a different methodological approach, equating various development scenarios and assuming a solution that would have to be at different scales – from local to regional –, bringing together the right to housing and the right to the city.