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Reshaping Territorial Identities and Creating Place Attachment Through Transport Infrastructure. Case Studies: The Metros in Almada, Lisbon and Porto

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Preserving and Constructing Place Attachment in Europe

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Transport authorities struggle to find appropriate mobility solutions to new challenges produced by societal phenomena, such as pandemic and other health and ecological issues, urbanisation, demographic shift, social exclusion, or lack of equity in accessibility. However, the introduction of new transport infrastructures and their consolidation over time, despite creating new cityscapes, brings several changes in the urban tissue, including impacts on place attachment identity and community. By using a mixed approach based on GIS techniques, visual imagery interpretation, media content analysis, and discourse analysis, this chapter aimed to assess to what extant the introduction of metro systems reshaped the territorial identity and place attachment patterns in three Portuguese cities (i.e., Almada, Lisbon and Porto) and their adjacent areas. The results showed that the discursive construction of the metros in newspapers is often realised through textual representations that are connected to and influence people’s perceptions, opinions, and emotions, thus enabling the construction of their attachment to the metro places. Hence, the metros were perceived as a familiar realm of mobility, a space of flow with fixed aspects of experiencing place, attractive due to both its social and physical environments.

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  1. Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social & Human Sciences, New University of Lisbon, Colégio Almada Negreiros, Lisbon, Portugal

    Emanuel-Cristian Adorean

  2. Department of Regional Geography and Territorial Planning, Faculty of Geography and Territorial Identities and Development Research Centre, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Oana-Ramona Ilovan

  3. Department of Environmental Remote Sensing and Soil Science, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Institute of Physical Geography and Environmental Planning, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

    Iwona Markuszewska

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Adorean, EC., Ilovan, OR., Markuszewska, I. (2022). Reshaping Territorial Identities and Creating Place Attachment Through Transport Infrastructure. Case Studies: The Metros in Almada, Lisbon and Porto. In: Ilovan, OR., Markuszewska, I. (eds) Preserving and Constructing Place Attachment in Europe. GeoJournal Library, vol 131. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09775-1_17

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