Abstract

MARQUES DA COSTA, Carlos; NUNES DA SILVA, Fernando  and  TEIXEIRA, Pedro. Vendas Novas General Urbanization Plan: An innovative experience in the 1980s.. GOT [online]. 2019, n.18, pp.05-37. ISSN 2182-1267.  https://doi.org/10.17127/got/2019.18.001.

The Urban Plan of Vendas Novas (PGUVN) is consider an innovative work in the Portuguese planning experience. Firstly because a group of students of a post-graduation course developed it, coordinated by Professor Manuel da Costa Lobo, himself the responsible for that first course in urban planning in Portugal. On the other hand, the PGUVN result from a reflexion at regional level of the role of Vendas Novas in the context of national regional policies, which, at the time been,  was a quite innovative approach in an urban plan. Finely, the Plan adopt a more flexible format then the existing legal framework, namely using the concepts of mix land uses and the definition planning units (latter on incorporated in the Portuguese planning legislation) and defining morphological and typological orientations for the areas to be urbanized.

Keywords : Urban Planning; Urbanism; Vendas Novas; Master in Urban and Regional Planning.

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