Lisbon School of Design

Urban Brownfields Regeneration: A European Perspective and Application to Portugal

The decline of industrial activity across Europe has produced extensive brownfield landscapes that today constitute both a challenge and a strategic opportunity for urban regeneration and the promotion of new sustainable urbanisation models. In Portugal, the regeneration of urban...

Producing Post-Conflict Urban Dili (Timor-Leste): Temporal Misalignment of Planning, Legislation and Budgeting Systems

Post-conflict cities are often understood as an outcome of fragmented governance, where coordination is limited, power is centralized and where spatial planning and urban development are often neglected and under-resourced across governance scales. This paper examines how tempora...

Inside the Studio

This study examines the impact of studio culture on student learning. We present the analysis of a survey conducted among senior design undergraduates (N = 126) that explored their perceptions of design studio culture and its impact on their development as designers. The survey c...

Toward an Automated REOT: A Conceptual Planning Support System for Territorial Monitoring in Portugal

Territorial planning in Portugal requires the regular preparation of State of Territorial Planning Reports (REOT) to evaluate the implementation of spatial planning instruments. However, these reports are traditionally produced as static documents, limiting their effectiveness as...

EUPopLink Country report - Portugal

Portugal has long been regarded as a Euroenthusiastic country, with broad support for European integration among citizens, political elites, and organised interests since the 1980s. This permissive consensus has been politically sustained by the country’s two mainstream pro-Europ...

Conditional Effectiveness of Night Ventilation During Heatwaves: Nonlinear Interactions Among Event Morphology, Thermal Mass and Operating Strategies

Consecutive warm nights during heatwaves erode the cooling potential of night ventilation (NV), making its effectiveness strongly dependent on both the event and the building conditions. This study quantified the nonlinear effects of heatwave morphology, building thermal mass (TM...

A multi-level framework for type-safe topological structures with efficient connectivity queries

We present a framework for representing and querying multi-type topological structures with applications to finite element meshes, hypergraphs, and hierarchical data. The framework introduces a four-level architecture—O2M (One-to-Many), M2M (Many-to-Many), MM2M (Multi-type Many-t...

First Sounds, Second Language: How Word Onsets Spark Language Co‐Activation in 3‐Year‐Old Bilinguals

ABSTRACT Adult and young bilinguals co‐activate their languages to different degrees, even in entirely monolingual tasks. However, many studies use translation pairs with high phonological overlap (e.g., the English‐GERMAN: “milk”‐“MILCH”), making it difficult to discern the orig...

Public Policy for Student Housing and Spatial Organization: Typo-Morphological Convergence in PNAES Projects, Portugal

The National Plan for Student Accommodation in Higher Education (PNAES, 2018–2026), funded by the Portuguese Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), aims to increase student housing capacity in Portugal through new construction, rehabilitation, and the adaptation of existing building...