All rights reservedRyser, Judith2024-05-302024-05-302011978-1530185207https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1665Quality of Space – Quality of Life : Planning for Urban Needs of diverse timeframes. 2nd AESOP European Urban Summer School 2011, LisbonFor their practical work, the summer school students were allocated wo sites, in need of urban transformation in the context of declining local authority funding. The purpose of the design projects was to generate creative solutions to revitalise a commuter suburb of Lisbon (Arroya-Odivelas) and a coastal village (Sintra – Praia das Macas) with summer tourism. The background to these projects was the acknowledgement that the public sector was no longer in a position to fund urban regeneration. The students were expected to produce alternative planning approaches with new stakeholders and funding opportunities. Analysis of traditional high street and proposals for transformation within contemporary constraints. One background study towards the summer school design tasks consisted of an analysis of the decline of traditional high streets. It was expected to assist students in rethinking the declining public realm in their study areas which amounts to a generic planning problem in many parts of the world, and in particular in Europe.enopenAccessconferenceObject198-205