Article ID: CBB514040509

The "Script" of a New Urban Layout: Mobility, Environment, and Embellishment in Lisbon's Streets (1850–1910) (January 2019)

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This article is at the crossroads of two scholarly traditions: the history of technology studying urban infrastructures and the history of urban planning. Using Actor Network Theory's concept of "script," it analyzes the strategic role played by the street to overcome nineteenth-century urban problems. The street was simultaneously the epicenter of the "urban question" and the key to its solution. This role explains why urban planning played a unifying part in the agenda of urban improvements, as a response to mobility, environment, and embellishment problems. However, urban planners did not dictate the evolution of Lisbon. This article argues that Lisbon's transformation was the result of tensions and compromises between different actors (public authorities, technicians, businessmen), and of diverse impulses (sanitary, economic, and emulative). Moreover, it argues that the heterogeneous character of nineteenth-century Lisbon demonstrates the need to zoom in on the street. ANT provides the heuristic framework for understanding these interactions.

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Authors & Contributors
Cardoso de Matos, Ana
Simões, Ana I.
Ismail, Shehab
Daniel Gamito-Marques
Guillermo Guajardo Soto
Darcy Parks
Concepts
Infrastructure
Urban planning
Technology and society
Water supply
Urbanization
Technology and culture
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
21st century
Places
Lisbon (Portugal)
Portugal
Philadelphia, PA
Kampala (Uganda)
Cairo (Egypt)
Anatolia (Turkey)
Institutions
History of the Urban Environment Book Series
Lisbon Industrial Institute
Museum of Science of the University of Lisbon
Royal Horticultural Society
Pulkovo Observatory
École des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris
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