Paulo Tormenta Pinto  | DINÂMIA'CET-IUL / CIAAM

José Luís Saldanha | DINÂMIA'CET-IUL / CIAAM

Bruno Ferreira | DINÂMIA'CET-IUL

 

The new modern neighbourhoods implied an articulation with the traditional city, implying in a first moment that they were understood as anchoring places enhancing a sustainable urban growth.  In the subsequent decades new phenomena arise such as their absortion by the city and their integration in a more wider metropolitan reality, or their renewal in face of demographic “shrinking”.  Eventually, on the contrary of some predictions on the urban consequences of new technologies of information, not only did cities maintained but also grew up, sometimes with high levels of desification.

In the wider context of metropolitan and territorial realities, this complexes challenge notions and concepts already established from a disciplinary perspective, upon which one should reflect:

 

2.1. The dialectic between central, policentric or bipolar models as opposed to the sectorized city;

2.2. The spatial organization and control (social, political and administrative) in the (des)agregation of fragments;

2.3. The limits and contexts of suburbia and periphery, particularly in megacities, and the articulation of these new territorial and metropolitan realities;

2.4. The city as a process as opposed to an entity;

2.5. The role of roadway infrastructures (and consequently of transports startegic planning) in develloping large scale urban models, as well as their inheritent potential and limits;

2.6. The way these new territorial and metropolitan realities in the turn of 20th. to 21 Century, evolved from these models as one of their starting points.