Portuguese West Coast tourism resorts: an unfinished landscape of territorial liabilities |
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Authors: | Célia Sousa Martins Cristina Soares Cavaco |
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Institution: | 1. Centro de Investiga??o em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design, Faculdade de Arquitetura, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugalceliasousamartins@gmail.com;3. Centro de Investiga??o em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design, Faculdade de Arquitetura, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal |
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Abstract: | The research focuses on Portuguese West Coast tourism resorts and addresses the problem of unfinished estates as territorial liabilities left by the Global Financial Crisis on residential tourism and tourism-driven urbanization. After a significant expansion during the golden age, resorts have suffered drastic consequences under the crisis, financial imbalance and stagnation of the real estate market. This situation brings additional problems to land management and adequate responses have not been provided yet. Focusing on the municipality of Óbidos, this paper aims to describe the territorial changes induced by the development of resorts, criss-crossing a morphological analysis with the understanding of the context of the Global Financial Crisis and the assessment of the regulatory framework. |
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Keywords: | Tourism urbanization resort residential tourism tourism planning unfinished estate |
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