Housing for a Changing Society: Rethinking Urban Dwellings in Lisbon †
Abstract
1. Introduction
Housing Studies in Portugal
2. Materials and Methods
3. Portuguese Society: Evolution and Transformation
3.1. Household Models
3.2. Labor Models and Practices
3.3. Consumption Models
4. Portuguese Contemporary Housing Models
5. Discussion
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
Abbreviations
AML | Lisbon Metropolitan Area |
IHRU | Portuguese Housing and Urban Rehabilitation Institute |
INE | Portuguese National Statistics Institute |
RGEU | Regulamento Geral das Edificações Urbanas (Urban Buildings General Regulation) |
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Areas/Research Foci | Topics | Authors * |
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Spatial Properties | Study of housing morphology and spatial dimensions | Portas [17] Pedro [18] |
Social Context | Family and household composition Demographic trends | Moreira [19] Moreira and Farias [20] Garha and Azevedo [21] |
Spatial Perception and Space Use | Appropriation, sense of belonging, perception Aspirations, needs, modes of living Technological change | Valente Pereira and Gago [22] Pereira [23] Moreira [19] Cabrita and Morgado [24] |
Year | Geographic Zone | Household Average Size |
---|---|---|
2001 | Portugal | 2.81 |
AML | 2.62 | |
2011 | Portugal | 2.61 |
AML | 2.43 | |
2021 | Portugal | 2.46 |
AML | 2.38 |
Year | Geographic Zone | Private Domestic Household Size (%) | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 or + | ||
2001 | Portugal | 17.30 | 28.39 | 25.17 | 19.68 | 9.46 |
AML | 20.87 | 30.09 | 25.39 | 17.00 | 6.65 | |
2011 | Portugal | 21.44 | 31.59 | 23.88 | 16.60 | 6.49 |
AML | 25.55 | 32.84 | 22.29 | 13.99 | 5.34 | |
2021 | Portugal | 25.42 | 34.20 | 22.12 | 15.13 | 5.74 |
AML | 29.30 | 34.16 | 20.76 | 14.03 | 5.69 |
Portugal | AML | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1991 | 2001 | 2011 | 2021 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 | 2021 | |
Single-person | 13.85 | 17.30 | 21.44 | 24.77 | 15.57 | 20.87 | 25.55 | 28.19 |
DINK | 22.2 | 23.56 | 25.64 | 27.28 | 23.47 | 23.79 | 25.40 | 24.27 |
Couple + kids | 49.92 | 45.19 | 37.92 | 34.12 | 47.83 | 40.40 | 32.86 | 30.13 |
Single-parent | 6.81 | 8.25 | 10.25 | 13.98 | 6.82 | 9.70 | 11.83 | 16.01 |
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Moreira, A.; Farias, H. Housing for a Changing Society: Rethinking Urban Dwellings in Lisbon. Buildings 2025, 15, 1793. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings15111793
Moreira A, Farias H. Housing for a Changing Society: Rethinking Urban Dwellings in Lisbon. Buildings. 2025; 15(11):1793. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings15111793
Chicago/Turabian StyleMoreira, Ana, and Hugo Farias. 2025. "Housing for a Changing Society: Rethinking Urban Dwellings in Lisbon" Buildings 15, no. 11: 1793. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings15111793
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