Article ID: CBB233032131

In Search of the Urban Variable: Understanding the roots of urban planning in Portugal (2009)

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Sousa, Maria Luiza (Author)
Ferreira Da Silva, Alvaro (Author)


Métropoles
Volume: 6

ISSN: 1957-7788

Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: Special Issue: Des mobilités urbaines à la ville mobile. Sur les traces des circulations urbaines
Physical Details: on-line edition: no page numbers
Language: English

This article demonstrates how public control over the street was at the origin of modern urban planning in Lisbon. The increased pressure over the street in the nineteenth-century city demanded increased public intervention, which was at the roots of urban planning as practice and as a body of theory. The strategic character assumed by urban planning derived from the fact that it was at the crossroads of the most important problems that nineteenth-century cities experienced: sanitation, circulation, and beautification. The preparation of the first Portuguese law on urban planning (1864) and the first improvement plan (1881) resulted from this need to exercise public monopoly over the use of the city streets. However, the financial, political, and technical conditions defined the scope of possibilities for the programme of improvement and beautification of the Portuguese capital. This article analyses the compromises between the forces driving modernisation and the limits of the possibilities.

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Authors & Contributors
Tóth, Katalin
Dieker, Marith
Galviz, Carlos López
Friss, Evan
Sousa, M. Luisa
Samuel Merrill
Concepts
Land transportation
urban transportation
Urban planning
Bicycles
Railroads
Mobility
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
London (England)
Portugal
Berlin (Germany)
Paris (France)
Magdeburg, Germany
Oryol, USSR
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