Abstract

SANTOS, Sofia. Images of the planned city: Lisbon’s cultural diversity and strategic urban thinking. Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas [online]. 2008, n.57, pp.131-151. ISSN 0873-6529.

Cultural diversity has acquired an important role in the discourse on regional and urban planning. The transformation of diversity into a territorial value emerges with the growth of the symbolic economy and the predominance of tourism, the economic sector of culture and urban marketing in development strategies. The strategic documents of regional and urban development are vehicles of territorial ideology, promoting ways of thinking about the territory, the protagonists and agents of its development, what it should be and who it should belong to. Via an analysis of the strategic documents for the capital city/region of the capital, we reveal the work of building representations for the Lisbon that has been planned. We pay special attention to the role of “diversity” in this building process.

Keywords : immigration and cultural diversity; urban and regional planning; economy of culture; urban marketing; territorial identities.

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