Urban Planning Policies to the Renewal of Riverfront Areas: The Lisbon Metropolis Case

Urban planning offers various design possibilities to solve fundamental challenges faced in urban areas. These include the need physically renew old industrial and harbour riverside areas into liveable, inclusive sustainable living spaces. This paper investigates way policies have helped waterfront Lisbon metropolis past decades. For this purpose, contribution of European Union (EU) national development plans over decades are analysed. The results demonstrate an intense renewal metropolitan area (LMA), particularly three leisure, ecologic touristic areas, vis-à-vis previous vocation.