Vicente, arrivals and departures. Lisbon, anchor of the infinite (original) (raw)

Lisbon: Between History and Modernity

2012

a group of nineteen Cal Poly undergrads lived and studied in Lisbon, led by City and Regional Planning faculty Vicente del Rio and Zeljka Howard, with the support of the Universidade Lusofona and faculty from their Department of Urbanism. The group included thirteen students from CRP, five from Landscape Architecture and one from Architecture. This was the first time the CRP department offered an international study program of such kind. The main part of the program consisted of an urban design studio at the university campus that lasted the four weeks of the trip. The class was organized into five interdisciplinary teams each including a sudent from Universidade Lusófona's Department of Urbanism. Their task was to to design a mixed-use development for the area of the old Feira Popular (Popular Fairgrounds) in Entre Campos. Although the site is within a very busy area and it is served by important avenues and an intermodal transit station (train, subway, and bus) it had been vacant for years waiting on court decisions on its future development. The project was a big challenge for our students not only because of their immersion in a totally new context but also because of the site's important cultural past and its potential as one of the last big land reserves in central Lisbon. The teams responded to the site's opportunities and constraints extremely well, and came up with creative but feasible solutions that impressed the local faculty and the director of Bragaparques, the then proprietors of the parcel. The Summer Program also included a series of talks by local professionals and faculty, visits and studies of projects and places

VISAO DOS FUTUROS DE LISBOA 1121 10 GEOGRAPHICAl ENTRIES FORA VISION OF lISBON'S FUTURES

In "Futuros de Lisboa", EGEAC 2018 isbn 978-989-8167-81-1, 2018

Thinking about the future can start from a different look at the present - the will to change the state of things, from what they are to what they should be To call into question the intuitive reading of the present (with an implicit future) is often the beginning of a reflection on possible and/or desirable future scenarios. It is in this context that I need to inform the reader of the options I have made in different moments of the text in arder to make the discourse "viabla". In fact. this text stems from the ambition of the geographer-planner-urbanist.the tempered critica I scrutiny of the geographer, and the exalted narrative of the accidental chronicler. In this proposal I tried to stick to the conventional limits of Geography, emphasizing some basic contents: the scales, the location, the site, the climate, geomorphology, hydrography, the relations of human beings with the environment. Perhaps warned by Malcom Miles's (2003) Strange Days essay on the possible consequences of dystopian visions in cities futures, the geographicalinputs I propose are restricted to a utopian view of what is to become of l.isbon.

Where will the airport land? A narrative about the locative uncertainty of the new lisbon airport

It is an established fact that an airport can be an instrument for development on a national and regional scale while having significant repercussions on the local level. It is equally true that it is an enormous investment wrapped in great project complexity. The specific case of the New Lisbon Airport (NLA) is a good example to prove these assumptions, and can also be considered a paradigm for a particular way of thinking about the territory. Thus, the NLA must be perceived as a heavy infrastructure and a complex process in its materialisation and also in the shock waves that it generates in the territory. However, to these obvious observations should be added other less neutral issues, regarding technical and political aspects. Those issues were the ones that disturbed (and still disturb) the NLA process. The political matters are related to the asymmetry on public investment between Northern and Southern Portugal, which the Northern social and economic actors consider to be a reinforcement to the already existent distributive inequities. It is not just about the sum involved but also about the opportunity costs, as the basis of the discussion is the priority given to the NLA project. Regarding the technical aspects, the need for the airport has never been clearly proven, the chosen locations were never a unanimous decision, and the type of airport to implement was never consensual. All of this complexity and tension has been portrayed in very diverse ways by the media, either through news articles, reports, debates, analyses or opinion pieces. The complex relations that this paper aims to describe are based on the collection, processing and sistematisation of journalistic material published between 2007 and 2012, available through Google© News, and a posterior analysis combining that information with the decision-making documents identifiable through the Diário da República editions. The NLA story hasn’t ended yet. There is a constant deepening of its complexity (ANA was privatised, the NLA was suspended, studies were made to materialise the “Portela+1” solution) and its implications on the territory and the communities (plans that are suspended, reconsidered or restarted, preventive measures, agreements with the Action Program for the West and Tagus Flatlands 2008-2017 of around 2 billion euro, etc.). This research helped to demonstrate that even for an investment that implicates an enormous financial effort and delicate consequences on land-use planning, decisional drifts are a reality. The territory, regional development and technical matters are moved to the background in a process that is juggled between the published opinions and the politics’s (in)decision. Keywords: locative uncertainty, Lisbon, new airport, media, non-decision costs

Lisbon Waterfront, the soul of a port city

Lisbon’s waterfront and its metropolitan area are both diverse and complex in its natural and cultural landscape. Holding a very strong human intervention this landscape is marked by buildings and transport infrastructure, by the design of public space and by the transformation of its ecological structure. The current geographic disposition of the river contour results from the progressive increment of the city over the river through successive landfills. The Portuguese urban models developed in Lisbon have been determining in shaping other cities with significant Portuguese presence. At the same time Lisbon received - and obviously every day is receiving - more outside influences. This dynamics continues to perform the interaction that has intensified since the 15th century. Both in Portugal and in other regions of the world where the lusophone culture is present there is a number of cities with large waterfronts and irregular topography, appropriate conditions to follow Lisbon´s example as a town that is integrated in the remarkable volumes of its seven hills. Belvederes over the river are placed to potentiate this natural setting. From the beginning of the 16th century, with the relocation of the Royal Palace of São Jorge Castle to the ‘Terreiro do Paço’ (downtown) until the 19th century, Lisbon had an inward expansion and a predominantly linear structure defined by a building area very close to the edge of the river. It’s on the riverside that many activities essential to the progress of Lisbon were concentrated, attracting every day the population to the most cosmopolitan area of the city. The attraction of the ‘riverside’ area and its symbolism and dynamism encouraged the political, economic and religious power to construct in that area many of the most significant buildings and public spaces in Lisbon.

Viagem a Lisboa - A Voyage to Lisbon

Texto para a folha de sala do bailado Lídia de Paulo Ribeiro. Estreia em Lisboa, pela CNB - Companhia Nacional de Bailado, Teatro Camões, 7 de Novembro de 2014

Productions centres - Lisbon, Coimbra and Vila Nova

On the World’s Routes - Portuguese Faience (16th-18th centuries), 2013

GOMES, Rosa Varela; GOMES, Mário Varela; CASIMIRO, Tânia Manuel; TRINDADE, Rui; SEBASTIAN, Luís - Productions centres - Lisbon, Coimbra and Vila Nova. In On the World’s Routes - Portuguese Faience (16th-18th centuries). Lisboa: Instituto de Arqueologia e Paleociências da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. 2013, pp. 19-44.

One territory, four questions, one atlas : Barcelona, 7-13 June 2022

One territory, four questions, one atlas arises from the need to rethink the collaboration between the four academic institutions (KULeuven; UMinho; AHO; ETSAB-UPC) after four years of Summer Workshops (3 editions in Belgium; 1 in Portugal). The intention is to generate new synergies and a common theoretical-practical body that becomes the seed for future joint collaborations (Summerschools, BIP, other shared intensive programs). How do we map space and experiences? How do we map global (climate change, monetary flows) vs. local processes? How do we map concepts? (boundaries, regularity, porosity) How do we map tangibles and intangibles? How do we map sensations (noises, flavours, smells)? How do we map paths and movement? How do we represent dynamics in a static drawing? What is the (ir)relevance of geographical precision? The disciplines of architecture and urban design have representation as their main communication tool. However, in recent years, the possibilities of access to i...

Linking the In-Between: A Strategy for the Integration of Urban Interstices in Lisbon

2024

The urban layout of Lisbon is closely linked with its ancient routes, shaped by the surrounding geography. Many of these routes still exist today as contemporary streets and serve as fundamental axes of the city. Along these routes, traditional public spaces such as praças, largos, miradouros, jardins or parques, can be found, while neglected areas known as urban interstices lie in between. Despite their abandonment, these spaces hold significant potential for important ecological and social functions. This paper aims to explore the possibilities of connecting urban interstices with Lisbon's public spaces, guided by principles of urban regeneration and the synergy between formal and informal systems. Through an analysis of the São Bento valley, it is intended to elaborate a strategy for urban integration that will serve, above all, as a platform for discussion about intervention approaches in public spaces.