The myth of the Mouraria ghetto in Lisbon: a plastic memory

Galhardo, Jacques

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“…The municipality adopts a tentative approach to policy implementation that is extremely reactive to contextual changes and opportunities, and micro-local stakeholder configurations and power balances. Lisboan convivial urbanism has also created a new market which saw the emergence of new non-state actors regularly collaborating with the municipality, including third sector ones (Galhardo, 2014;Gomes, 2017), or for the reorientation of traditional real estate developers (Nofre, 2013). These actors then push for new business opportunities in public space, as was the case in the…”

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“…The Mercado materializes the strong link between Lisbon’s take on a convivial urbanism, reliant on the food and beverage and events industries, and a growing commodification of the city’s public spaces, in a context of growing touristification and gentrification. Lisboan convivial urbanism has also created a new market, which saw the emergence of new non-state actors regularly collaborating with the municipality, including third-sector ones (Galhardo, 2014; Gomes, 2017), or the reorientation of traditional real estate developers (Nofre, 2013). These actors then push for new business opportunities in public space, as was the case in the Mercado .…”

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The birth of public space privatization: How entrepreneurialism, convivial urbanism and stakeholder interactions made the Martim Moniz square, in Lisbon, ‘privatization-ready’

Gomes¹

2019

European Urban and Regional Studies

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Despite the vigorous debate on the extent, modalities and impacts of public space privatization, there have been few analyses of the processes of its emergence in specific places. Based on 36 stakeholder interviews and desk research, this paper does so through an analysis of how the Martim Moniz square, in Lisbon, became the city’s first square under private management in 2012. To do so, the paper goes through the local governance context and the importance of convivial public spaces as a political objective, leading to regular partnerships with non-state actors. The square is adjacent to Mouraria, a derelict neighbourhood that was a testing ground for the city’s new urban policies. The square’s private management scheme – branded the Mercado de Fusão – rather than a rupture with existing practices, is the result of a coincidence of interests of both actors. Moreover, it reassembles typical local policy responses and the company’s expertise in a unitary management scheme. The seamless implementation of the Mercado is made possible by the pre-existing relationship between the company and the municipality. The paper thus shows that there is no fundamental shift towards private governance in Lisbon. Rather, it is the generalized commodification of public spaces resulting from the emergence of conviviality as a political objective that opened up the conditions for the square’s privatization. The relationship between conviviality as a political objective and privatization is presented as a promising subject for further research.

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The birth of public space privatization: How entrepreneurialism, convivial urbanism and stakeholder interactions made the Martim Moniz square, in Lisbon, ‘privatization-ready’

Gomes¹

2019

European Urban and Regional Studies

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Façonner un lieu dans la ville et une singularité de la marque urbaine : exemple des usages des images photographiques dans le quartier de la Mouraria à Lisbonne

Galhardo¹

2018

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La photographie joue un rôle important dans la réhabilitation des centres anciens urbains : elle offre l’opportunité aux acteurs locaux de revendiquer, de promouvoir ou de dénoncer une action publique patrimoniale. L’analyse des photographies, au cours du temps, m’a permis de comprendre ce qui est défini comme patrimoine matériel ou immatériel ; mais surtout les processus de « désoccultation » d’un angle mort de la ville. Loin d’être uniquement un outil de communication ou de l’arrangement, la production photographique et ses usages divers favorisent les processus d’intégration urbaine d’un quartier, longtemps considéré comme marginal par les acteurs locaux de Lisbonne : la Mouraria. Ceci me conduit à discuter les effets de ces usages de l’image sur le quartier lui-même et ses habitants. Cet article a comme objectif de montrer, à travers des exemples photographiques, que les points de vue affirmés – loin de construire une image convergente d’un quartier ou de la ville – produisent un ensemble de fragmentations socio-spatiales et des ambiguïtés dans la construction de l’urbain, comme dans la place des résidents. Les distinctions entre image publique et privée ou entre image institutionnelle et associative tendent à être moins évidentes au fur et à mesure de l’intervention municipale. Les photographies peuvent alors apparaître comme un matériau propice à la manipulation des acteurs locaux. Je tenterai de montrer que ces derniers tirent également profit du jeu en négociant, dans l’espace public, ces images.

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The myth of the Mouraria ghetto in Lisbon: a plastic memory

Cited by 2 publications

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The birth of public space privatization: How entrepreneurialism, convivial urbanism and stakeholder interactions made the Martim Moniz square, in Lisbon, ‘privatization-ready’

The birth of public space privatization: How entrepreneurialism, convivial urbanism and stakeholder interactions made the Martim Moniz square, in Lisbon, ‘privatization-ready’

Façonner un lieu dans la ville et une singularité de la marque urbaine : exemple des usages des images photographiques dans le quartier de la Mouraria à Lisbonne

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