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This chapter evaluates the aspects of resilience in Alcântara, the selected case study area located on the western side of the city of Lisbon. Its urban fabrics, land uses and functional links to the city and the metropolitan area allow the area to be defined as a nodal zone amid an area of compact urban development.
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The NUTS/Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics classification is a hierarchical system for dividing up the economic territory of the EU for the purpose of the collection, development and harmonisation of EU regional statistics: socio-economic analyses of the regions. NUTS 1: major socio-economic regions. NUTS 2: basic regions for the application of regional policies. NUTS 3: as small regions for specific diagnoses, http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/nuts_nomenclature/introduction.
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Value considered as acceptable for trips on foot to large-capacity transport stations.
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INE – Instituto Nacional de Estatística/National Institute for Statistics. On this basis, the minimum unit is the statistic subsection, which corresponds, most of the time, to an urban block. Statistic subsections hold alphanumeric information sourced from the 2001 Census. Whenever the stations’ influence area limits do not coincide with statistics subsections, the resulting values were weighted according to census results for that subsection.
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Within a 500 m radius.
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In Lisbon, the population density in 2001 was 6,673 inhab/km2 (INE 2001).
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The adaptive cycles are the characterisation of a given system in a given time through four sequential states. These states are designated as (1) growth, (2) conservation, (3) release and (4) reorganisation.
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Dias, L.F., Morgado, S., Costa, J.P.T.A. (2013). Assessing Urban Resilience in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon: The Case of Alcântara. In: Eraydin, A., Taşan-Kok, T. (eds) Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning. GeoJournal Library, vol 106. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5476-8_9
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