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Gentrification
Renovar a Mouraria I 6th April I 21h30 FREE ENTRANCE What is happening to the Historic Centre of Lisbon? The climb in population loss over the last 3 years has led the four chairpersons of the parish councils to take a public position. Under 10 thousand inhabitants, the parishes will lose significant performance power. And we, citizens, what are we willing to do? With the tourism excuse, the city is selled with a cheap price, hotels, hostels and apartments for temporary accommodation arise, it is ensured an income of 4% in the luxury investments, places that give identity to the city are destroyed, rehabilitation is only made according to the tourism, tenants are evicted, there is speculation with prices and it becomes impossible to housing. We, at the Citizenship Academy and at Renovar a Mouraria want to continue reflecting and contributing for citizens to take an attitude. Are you coming too?
Gathering I How to promote sustainable tourism in Lisbon?
Produced by Catarina Leal in her Master’s degree developed in Anthropology, Cidade Guiada documents one of the biggest problems currently encountered in the historic centre of Lisbon: gentrification by tourism. Phenomenon long observed in cities such as Barcelona, Berlin or London, gentrification is an urban symptom which mainly affects the most vulnerable populations inhabiting cities. Tourism is one of the key features adopted to boost the economy in neighbourhoods such as Graça, Alfama and Mouraria. With an increasingly industry sustained on foreign population, Portuguese neighbourhoods are revaluated and rehabilitated every day. Already with a few former residents, from the buildings only facades are left. Cidade Guiada still poses an increasingly relevant question: how to redevelop a neighbourhood or a city that serves the people and not the tourists? The film projection will be followed by a debate with the presence of director Catarina Leal, Joana Jacinto, promoter of […]
FREE CINEMA: “Cidade Guiada” (“Guided City”) I Cine Café Touristification
[article written by Leonor Duarte, within the Cine Café Turistificação: Alto Bairro (Turistification: High Neighbourhood)] Yesterday, at Lisboa Vadia, the lisboners could assist to the film “Alto Bairro” and to discuss the gentrification and turistification of Bairro Alto. We noticed, with some annoyance, how this neighbourhood has been losing the life that distinguishes it, mostly its daytime life, whether because of local shops, shops from other fields, as fashion, bookstores, among others, that close, or because former residents who leave. These are the factors that show how Bairro Alto is being a victim of a phenomenon that is being talked about around, which is gentrification. And the debate was so zippy, that it was difficult to finish. There are some people that think that the Bairro has become an amusement park, a big open air bar and that people who go there to have fun, they forget or […]
Bairro Alto: a city is much more than an amusement park
Sorry, this entry is only available in Português. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Turistificação, mas que grande palavrão! Lisboa Vadia I 16 Fevereiro I 21h30 Com estreia no ano passado no cinema e rodado em pouco mais de um mês, “Alto Bairro” dá voz às pessoas que sempre lá viveram e aquelas que tiveram que sair. Do realizador Rui Simões, este documentário retrata um bairro em constante mudança, dos anos 50 até aos dias de hoje. Lugar de prostituição e boémia, “Alto Bairro” apresenta-nos, primeiro, uma Lisboa típica dos cafés e das mercearias de rua, das antigas pensões e das roupas estendidas à janela, testemunhada, entre a calma das tardes e a azáfama das noites, pelos mesmos moradores que têm visto o despejo de muito comércio local, a degradação […]
(Português) CINEMA GRÁTIS: “Alto Bairro” | Cine-Café Turistificação
April 15 – 22 I Mouraria, Lisbon The project “Tourism Gentrification and City-making” is promoted by Stadslab (Fontys – University of Applied Sciences, Tilburg, NL), in partnership with Academia Cidadã. The objectives of the Master Class are: – to provide insight into the impact of mass tourism on public space, urban development and the daily urban life of the citizens in Lisbon; – to develop alternative scenarios for a more balanced urban development to avoid excessive real estate speculation, social and economic segregation, lack of accessible urban services and public space and disappearance of affordable housing. The intervention area of the Master Class will be the district of Mouraria. For more information and application, please enter here.
Master Class “Tourism Gentrification and City-making”
In 2014, Pakhuis de Zwijger (cultural organization in the city of Amsterdam) came up with the idea of Metropolitan Field Trips. Cities are constantly in change, new initiatives arise and try to answer to several question on how to become city-owners and how to participate in their evolution. During the Field Trips, on the biggest european cities, the participants learn about diverse approaches on base initiative and about the relation between bottom-up city makers, planning agents, local government and other institutions. Field Trips have, therefore, as a goal a better understanding of the whole process of transition and they are an opportunity to exchange knowledge between partners in Europe. The program started at 4 p.m on the 8th, with the meeting point for the welcoming at Holzmarkt. Holzmarkt is located in an old abandoned area at the Spree waterfront. It was destined to be sold as part of the project […]
The Citizenship Academy in a transitional Berlin
In a context of economic crisis and social emergency present in more and more regions of the European Union, it is important to think about solutions that, more than helping people in trouble to overcome their financial problems, solutions that help to create innovative forms of social organization , alternatives to the ones that capitalist system provide us. At the Congress of Solidarity Economics, the SOLIKON 2015, which took place in Berlin from 10 to 13 september, it was intended to share and discuss different approaches, visions and pratics about new ways of economic activity, based on solidarity and sustainability. The Citizenship Academy was there! Click here to read the rest of the article.
SOLIKON, creating alternatives from Lisbon to Berlin
1 O Enrique Flores, para além de um grande amigo, é também uma das figuras centrais do Movimento 15M, em Espanha. Através do trabalho de ilustração política que tem realizado, sobretudo no registo das muitas iniciativas desenvolvidas por esse movimento, desde 2011, o Enrique oferece-nos novas perspetivas acerca da realidade, num olhar lúcido, crítico e bem disposto, através de uma linguagem muito pessoal, mas, ao mesmo tempo, universal. Tivemos a sorte de o ter tido connosco durante a Primavera Cidadã – Semana da Cidadania 2015, e que ele tenha trazido, na sua mala, um caderno e alguns pincéis!
Reportagem Ilustrada Primavera Cidadã
6 PROGRAMA: (clicar em cada dia para mais informações) “Se não puder dançar, não é a minha revolução” – Emma Goldman (evento no facebook) Uma festa, toda a gente! (evento no facebook) O sonho comanda a vida quando a falar é que a gente se entende! (evento no facebook) A PRIMAVERA CIDADÃ 2015 tem também atividades para cerca de duas dezenas de ativistas estrangeiros. Vêm de vários países europeus para conhecer projetos que dão alma à região de Lisboa e a tornam mais viva, justa, solidária e sustentável. As organizações que abrem as suas portas são: Pendão em Movimento (Queluz), Moinho da Juventude (Cova da Moura), Salamandra Dourada (Ameixoeira), Renovar a Mouraria, Chapitô (Alfama), A Música portuguesa a gostar dela própria (Alcântara), Rés do Chão (Santa Catarina), Horta da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon Sustainable Tourism e Cozinha Popular da Mouraria.