In search of the urban variable : Understanding the roots of urban planning in Portugal

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 theor...

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Main Authors: Álvaro Ferreira da Silva, Maria Luísa Sousa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Métropoles 2011-06-01
Series:Métropoles
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/metropoles/4029