What you're looking at
A real read of a Lisbon neighborhood — the same math the staff workspace runs. Each ribbon below answers one plain-English question. Numbers and methodology are tucked behind Open the technical view so you can read the story first, then dig in where it matters.
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How is this neighborhood performing right now?
Overall read: gentrification pressure. The score below combines essentials, lifestyle, civic life and how easy it is to get around — without owning a car.
What's at stake here every year if nothing changes?
Avoidable harm to residents — health costs, lost productivity, displacement, climate risk — adds up to roughly €9.0M a year on the central estimate. The band below is the low–high envelope.
Will residents be cooked in summer?
This neighborhood traps dangerous heat — about 3.2°C hotter than the Mediterranean norm, with roughly 47 sweltering nights a year. Cooling the streets matters more here than adding new buildings.
Is the air safe to breathe?
Air here is well above what the World Health Organization considers safe — yearly fine-particle (PM2.5) levels around 20.1 µg/m³, about 15.1 over the safe limit. Cleaning up the air should be a top priority.
Can people get around without a car?
Trips here already meet the European 40% car target (~28% by car). Mobility is not the main thing to fix — protect what's working.
Is the street pleasant to walk?
Streets here are pleasant to walk (overall 4.1/5) — pavements, tree cover and active shopfronts reinforce each other. Protect what's there.
What happens here when it rains hard?
Mixed flood exposure — about €57 per resident per year, roughly 29% annual chance. There's room for green-infrastructure retrofits and ground-floor flood adaptation before the risk hardens.
Is it quiet enough to sleep?
Day-evening-night noise around 67 dB sits about 14 dB above what the World Health Organization considers safe — loud enough to disturb sleep and harm long-term health. Quieter road surfaces, 30 km/h zones, double-glazing programmes and street trees should sit near the top of the action plan.
Can residents still afford to live here?
Tenants spend roughly 61% of their income on housing — about 21 percentage points above the European overburden line of 40%. Rent stabilisation, requiring affordable units in new development, accelerating social housing and re-targeting renovation grants should sit near the top of the action plan.
Test how interventions could change neighborhood outcomes
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