Integração socioespacial dos bairros de habitação social na área metropolitana de Lisboa: Evidências de micro segregação

Abstract

This paper reflects on the urban condition of social housing neighbourhoods in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA) with regard to the socio-spatial integration and their relations with urban development, public policies and local action strategies in the neighbourhoods. This study uses a multi-scalar perspective, which starts with an extensive analysis of social housing neighbourhoods in the LMA and is continued by an intensive study of three neighbourhoods located in different municipalities in the Greater Lisbon area. The research involved, in addition to the literature review, a combination of quantitative, qualitative and cartographic methods. The findings highlight several constraints in the socio-spatial integration of social housing estates at multiple geographic levels and confirm the socio-spatial inequalities as a multilevel phenomenon that is expressed in various analytical dimensions, namely the functional, physical, symbolic and relational ones. Contributing to this socio-spatial integration deficit are the reduced number of social housing and the almost exclusive orientation towards insolvent households, the insertion of the neighbourhood in a context of urban disconnection and the limited impact of programs, practices and actions of social and socio-territorial nature implemented in neighbourhoods, regarding their effective contribution to socio-spatial integration.