The double periphery in Metropolitan Area of Lisbon: Suburban cities without centre
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2016
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The suburban growth has almost always been an optimistic growth. Optimistic for land owners who gave a profitable use to land long off from agricultural practices; to speculators that use the tremendous pressure of a demand with no viable alternative in the housing market; for buyers who, in the ongoing (and seemingly endless) appreciation of property, saw its assets swell; to financial capital that found skyrocketing profitability levels and very low risk; finally for municipalities that obtained resources (toxic, for what they represent in the future) that were significant portion of their annual budgets.
It was this unrepeatable optimism, a kind of collective alienation that allowed the emergence of a metropolitan area needing land use planning. This, incidentally, would be an acceptable requirement in this euphoric environment for all, including for the central government that felt some relief from social pressure in this area. It is recalled that already in the period of formation of illegal neighborhoods, in the 60s and 70s, the state allowed the construction by applying the “fine system”. That is, while it marked his commanding presence through a soft supervision never did in something in order to dissuade the owners of the construction of their own home, as it was to solve a problem that the state had.
These brief notes help to contextualize the two original aspects that this communication is intended to bring out linked to the big housing neighborhoods in the suburbs of Lisbon: i) its generation in spaces that had only to accommodate infrastructure and correspond to properties that were perpetuated in the toponymy of these housing developments and that have no linkage to each other concerning the road network, the public spaces system or in urban or architectural terms;
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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