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Lisboa waterfront: the new heart for the megacity, a new gate for the world

ABSTRACT

Lisboa Waterfront is a water wonder and has always enjoyed its status as a waterside attraction. A metropolis of 3,500 000 inhabitants, Lisboa is becoming the new heart for the region and, in view of its interface with the Atlantic, a new strategic gateway for the world: Portugal’s Exclusive Economic Zone (the area of the Atlantic in which it has special rights over the exploration and uses of marine resources), at 1 ,727 408 km2, is the world’s 11 th largest.

The presentation will consider this new development in six sequential components:

Lisboa and its water origin;
Lisboa and its water history, from waterfront to waterland;
Lisboa as a megacity, from waterland to hinterland;
Lisboa megacity (Greater Lisbon) as a waterfront today;
Lisboa megacity (Greater Lisbon) and its new urban experiences and opportunities (case-studies);
Lisboa Waterfront and the challenges for a local and global future.

BIOGRAPHY

JOÃO BELO RODEIA M.Arch, Architect, Lisbon, Portugal

Joao Rodeia has a M.Arch from the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon, and a Diploma of Advanced Design Studies from the Polytechnical University Catalonia (Barcelona). He has been President of the National Council of the Portuguese Institute of Architects since 2002 and was formerly Chief Executive of Portuguese Heritage between 2003 and 2005. Joao teaches at the Faculty of Architecture and Arts of the Lusíada University Lisbon (since 1987) and has taught overseas and spoken at conferences in Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Brasil, Ecuador and Mexico.

He has written extensively on architectural theory and criticism and published in 2G (Gustavo Gili Arch Magazine) and JA-Jornal Arquitectos, serving on the latter as member of the editorial board. Joao has been a curator of several architectural exhibitions and events including The Portuguese National Year of Architecture 2004; and will be the Portuguese delegate of the next Iberoamerican Bienal Conference of Architecture and Urbanism at Montevideo (Uruguay).

Joao is a consultant at a number of public and private institutions, offering expert adcive on concept and project atrategies in architecture, architectural heritage and landscapes.

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