A New Territorial Social Policy as a Bioregional Conviviality formula = Compact Cities + Intermodal Cities + New Public Places - Paulo Castro Seixas, Nadine Lobner

This position paper claims that local governments, within a regional inter-related scope, should envision a new territorial social policy for the effectiveness of sustainability and wellbeing of communities. The proposal of this work stems from a long period of research on sustainability matter; the framing of ecumene studies; and from applied science as consultants with local governments. Our recommendation is that this territorial social policy should be presented as a Regional Conviviality Formula, which is the synergetic result of Compact Cities + Intermodal Cities + New Public Places. We highlight that this formula has potential to create a new socio-spatial configuration: a new conviviality model. This work is a reflexive attempt on two schisms (socio-cultural and nature-human) that should be overcome in the 21st century, within that new co ...