Abstract

CARDOSO, Vasco. The past of some futures once desired in urban form. GOT [online]. 2016, n.10, pp.71-94. ISSN 2182-1267.  https://doi.org/10.17127/got/2016.10.004.

Encouraged by the conference theme "Geography in the Construction of Desire Future", we aim to expose a research methodology on Urban Morphology and Urbanism. A contribution to the reflection on the relevance of diachronic studies of the desired futures it’s also a goal. The Porto City Council urban criteria’s birth and maturation was the researched theme. To that purpose, we focus our attention on its expression from the approved document to tangible urban form. As the confrontation between form and form to be occurred, the journey from dream to reality becomes a modelling process. Distributing the organized examples - desired future’s fragments - through time (1936-1974) and space (Porto) we established 4 reflection starting points on the past of some futures once desired in urban form.

Keywords : Urban Morphology; Urbanism; Historical Cartography; Plan; Urban Planning.

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