ABSTRACT
This chapter aims at articulating the complex dialogue between Lisbon's metropolitan area territorial evolution and the characteristics of public space qualification projects that have been produced and shaped in the past 25 years, with the aim of outlining their general rationales of contribution to territorial development. Resorting to Reynar Bahnam's terminology, an array of interpretative ‘ecologies’ is outlined by pinpointing the convergence between specific landscape conditions and the urban spaces in which every day public life takes place and new threads of metropolitan identity unfold.
