Due to the joint pressure of urban tourism development and the global (un)economic laissez faire that has been ruling the “real estate market” that (de)populates Lisbon, the historic city (of river and sea) hasn't failed to regenerate and sanitize itself. On the reverse of both terms of benevolent appearance – regeneration and hygiene – we find processes of exclusion and contingent expulsion of old inhabitants (socially aged and/or economically disadvantaged) from the city center, in favor of new (clean) forms of economic colonization.

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Under the cover of a hypothetical and presupposed “right to the city” – extensible to permanent and occasional residents – does the contingent production of architectures still represent a choice, or does it become a “mere fatality”? (see Leon Krier).