Lisbon Metropolitan Area with more spaces immigration … – The Associated Press

             
             

 
                     

Lisbon Metropolitan Area (AML) differs, in socioeconomic terms, the Porto Metropolitan Area (AMP) by the existence of areas of immigration, while the North has more space with less urbanization, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE).

                 

                     In socio-economic typology of metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto, 2011, released on Thursday by the INE, the territory can be divided into the categories of qualified new consolidated unqualified “urban (sub) urban, (sub) urban spaces integrated lower density, lower density self-centered spaces and spaces of immigration. “

The differentiating the two areas is the greater presence of spaces immigration in Lisbon (12% vs. 02%) and less self-centered spaces density in Porto.

Spaces immigration concentrated foreign population and different religions, and usually tend to have a more aged buildings with overcrowded and rented accommodation.

According to INE, self-centered spaces of lower density have less population and buildings with seven or more households, there is a lower incidence of population belonging to more qualified socio-economic groups and with more schooling.

Between the years 2001 and 2011, the INE noted the expansion of (sub) urbanization qualified and the retreat of the (sub) urban unskilled in both territories, with the resident in (sub) urban population more than qualified to double and the other end to “decrease by more half. “

In AML, the extension of qualified suburbanization mainly covered the municipalities of Sintra, Cascais, Oeiras, Lisboa and also Seixal and Almada.

” In the city of Lisbon, we highlight the process of revitalization and urban renewal in the eastern area of ​​the city “, while the AMP this phenomenon focused on Matosinhos, Maia and Vila Nova de Gaia.

The heterogeneity is more pronounced in AML, given the “fairer territorial and population distribution between the various socio-economic classes in metropolitan Lisbon.”

The fragmentation of the territory in the Lisbon area shall be recorded, according to the document, the municipalities city ​​limits, to extend on the north bank of the Tagus, along roads and railways, as in lines of Sintra, Cascais and Azambuja.

On the south bank of the Tagus river, the INE highlighted the area between Almada and Montijo and the city of Setúbal.

Have the AMP, fragmentation is evident between the center-periphery opposition, “emphasizing the centrality of the city of Porto and a crown circumferential suburban sprawl that encompasses the . municipalities Matosinhos, Maia, Valongo, Gondomar and Vila Nova de Gaia “

In both spaces, the consolidated city-wide, the characterizations are similar: aged over territories, either in population or in buildings, being the most common Lonely elderly residents. There are even “bigger words” rented houses.

these traditional urban centers represents 17% of the population of AML, while the AMP that percentage is lower (10%).

” The municipalities of Lisbon and Setúbal, in AML, and the municipalities of Porto, Espinho and São João da Madeira, in AMP, exceeded its metropolitan average in terms of population relative importance of urban consolidation, “it reads.