Sílvia Viegas (CIAC/UAlg) and Sílvia Jorge (CiTUA-IST) co-edited the 45th edition of the journal Cities, Communities and Territories. Published under the theme Access to housing and Covid-19: readings from the metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto, this special issue is about the access to proper and adequate housing in Portugal.
This edition results from the convergence of four research projects (three individual and one collective): “INSEhRE 21. Socio-spatial and housing inclusion of refugees in Europe today: lessons from the African diaspora in Portugal”, developed by Sílvia Leiria Viegas at the Centre of Social Studies (University of Coimbra) and “Refugee Research for (Post)Covid-19. National Measures and Local Actions in the Algarve: a Digital Tour for Access to Adequate Housing and Living Conditions”, currently hosted at CIAC (University of the Algarve); “Housing as 1st right: facing housing precariousness in contemporary Europe. Contributions from the Portuguese reality”, an ongoing project led by Sílvia Jorge, at CiTUA (Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon); and “Middle-Class Mass Housing in Europe, Africa and Asia”, as both researchers were co-chairs of the session “Covid-19, Housing and Middle Class: Discussing socio-spatial imbalances and materialities in the Portuguese context”, which was part of the International Conference “Optimistic Suburbia II, Middle Class Mass Housing Complexes”, promoted as part of this collective project (Lisbon, June 2021).
Six scientific articles are followed by two interviews on the topic, a review and two critical testimonies: one on the right to housing and interventions from the experience of the collective Habitação Hoje; and another on the legacy of Nuno Teotónio Pereira in the year that marks his centenary. This work intends to celebrate and contribute to empower the voices that highlight the importance of his legacy in the general framework of contemporary architecture in Portugal.
VIEGAS, Sílvia; JORGE, Sílvia (Eds.) (2022). Acesso à habitação e Covid-19: Leituras a partir das Áreas Metropolitanas de Lisboa e Porto [Special issue]. CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios, 45.