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Atas do VI Simpósio Luso-Brasileiro de Cartografia Histórica
#As cidades que o Porto poderia ter sido
Vasco Cardoso
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In 1934, a new era of urban development plans was budding in Portugal, under the dictatorial regime of Salazar, recently endowed with a constitution. Until 1943, the state aspired to an official urbanism. However, from early on, the municipalities struggled to solve their most urgent urban planning problems, albeit under the authority of mayors appointed directly by the government. Urban planners, in their turn, attempted to deal with the former and the need for work, as well as their commitment, in some cases more than others, to European-style modernism. In this turbulent setting, the delays in accomplishing prior land surveys, required by law, and difficulties with expropriations, were major obstacles to the coherent and continuous implementation of the urban plans that appeared. The latter themselves, subject to state approval, also took time to come into force. It became increasingly apparent that the urban development plans served more to take stock of the site planning work carried out, which proved to be more efficient, than as key working documents. Thus, the doctoral thesis we concluded recently explores the urban morphogenesis of Porto at the time, based on the urban site plans. We analysed and classified almost 1000 municipal urban planning proposals. The recurrence of different proposals for certain locations at different times serves to illustrate the cities Porto could have been. Thus, it is possible to build city blueprints, by eras, which reveal cities belonging to different schools of thought, according to the interpretation of imported models. They also reveal the permanence of circumstance, in the adaptations the various models suffered.
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