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September 10, 2025Frontiers in Built Environment1 citationsOpen Access

Operationalizing spatial justice: a transdisciplinary framework for territorial equity in Portugal

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JGJorge GonçalvesSJSílvia JorgeFSFernando Nunes da Silva

Key Points

  • The framework identifies and maps spatial injustice in Portugal, focusing on mobility, economy, and governance.
  • Using cluster analysis (SPSS) alongside participatory workshops, the study investigates territorial disparities in municipalities.
  • Four municipalities represent different clusters, enabling context-specific exploration of spatial (in)justice.
  • This transdisciplinary effort may facilitate future research into territorial equity and spatial justice practices.

Abstract

This paper presents the Território.justo.pt project as an innovative initiative to operationalise the concept of spatial justice within the Portuguese territorial context. Drawing on foundational works by Lefebvre, Harvey, Soja, and Fainstein, the project develops a transdisciplinary and data-driven framework to identify and address territorial disparities across Portuguese municipalities. Through the combination of participatory workshops and cluster analysis (SPSS), the study maps spatial injustice along three core dimensions: mobility, economy, and governance. Four municipalities were also selected as representative case studies of each cluster, laying the groundwork for future research. These municipalities offer an opportunity to further investigate spatial (in)justice in context-specific ways and to test the operational applicability of the proposed framework.

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Gonçalves et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c1a13a54b1d3bfb60dc9e5https://doi.org/10.3389/fbuil.2025.1616966
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