Be a wanderer!

Bring your camera, notepad or sketchbook and join a small handful of likeminded people on a walking (and public transport) tour of lesser known and visited Lisbon. Get to know the city away from the so-called ‘historic centre’ and your typical tourist circuitry — beyond the tuk-tuk infested streets, the rows of generic souvenir shops, the ersatz genuine and the globalist grey. Learn about the relationship between centre and suburbs, the architectural typologies, how specific sections of the city were planned and built, how others saw little planning or none at all, how rapidly some municipalities in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area have grown in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the working-class communities and neighbourhoods that sustain the urban-suburban pendulum, the many problems, but also the great potential. Get to know some of the 'terrain vague', barriers, clusters, thoroughfares, asymmetries, fractures and consolidations that make Greater Lisbon what it is. Take home a whole new perspective on the wider Lisbon area, a bunch of fresh references and a digital toolkit that will hopefully help you tap further into urban planning, sustainable cities, the politics of walking, motonormativity, etc. Who knows, you may even start to see every other city in a different light!