Virtually every city in the nations older industrial regions, no matter its size, grapples with
the challenge of unused or abandoned manufacturing facilities and other industrial sites.
( Charles Bartsch, Elizabeth Collaton,1997) Brownfield problems in Portugal are related to
rapid economic change since the accession to the EU. Most of Portuguese industry is
located in urban areas, close to residential areas. For example, Barreiro is one of worst
situations where heavy industry is located in an urban area. An important brownfield in
Almada, near Lisbon, is a former ship building area planned for residential use.
( Brownfields and Redevelopment of Urban Areas , October 2002)
A small number of landscape reclamation projects have been done until 1986, year of the
Portuguese membership in the European Community . Portugal had not followed the steps
of the developed countries and just in the end of the 90s a part of the Portuguese nation,
changed view and attitudes toward older industrial structures and sites: initially considered
blighted elements in an urban area, derelict, undesirable or redundant.( Luis Loures &
Thomas Panagopoulos. , 8005-139) About the resolution of problem with brownfields
some people could say that in Portugal , the small size of sector is aconstraint to the
development of national components suppliers which are acrucial target of the industrial
policy.To develop the components sector, industrial policy should not concentrate only on
the attracion of inward investment.( Andrew Pike, Mario Vale, 1996)
According to my information , Portugal has been managing aprograme on urban
regeneration since 1994 (PROSIURB) to strengthen regional cities with financing for
