Land Use Planning and Housing Policy: Which Routes to Portugal?

Abstract

The essay relates Land Use Planning and Housing Policy. In doing so, three subjects, considering the Portuguese contemporary context, come to surface with particular relevance:

• Compact versus sprawl;
• Renewal versus new constructions;
• Cost of housing versus household

For each subject a diagnosis is done and possible solutions are pointed out. These solutions are confluent and can be understood as a contribution to a new housing and land use policy.