TITLE:
Analyzing Housing and Household Evolution and Actuality in Lisbon, 2000-2020
AUTHORS:
Ana Moreira, Hugo Farias
KEYWORDS:
Urban Housing, Households, Social Change, Lisbon
JOURNAL NAME:
Current Urban Studies,
Vol.10 No.2,
June
23,
2022
ABSTRACT: Housing
is a form of culture and, as such, is greatly influenced by social context and
its transformation. Household composition and characteristics, modes of living
and housing typologies and attributes are undoubtedly linked. This paper
proposes an analysis of Lisbon’s housing reality, from the year 2000 to 2020,
relating it to social change, namely household evolution in the same period.
The analyzed data were collected from Portuguese National Censuses from 2001
and 2011 and statistical information gathered yearly by the national statistics
institute (INE) regarding population and building. The analysis shows that
Lisbon’s housing and household reality differs from the national context, and
that in the 21st century, housing in Lisbon has tended to a
reduction in size—both typology and area—but also that the average Portuguese
household (and Lisbon’s correspondingly) has decreased in dimension and
composition type, indicating that increasingly smaller households are offered
smaller units and that new and nontraditional household compositions and
associated alternative modes of living could be determining a shift in housing
programs.