CRIANDO MEMÓRIAS PARA ESPAÇOS PÚBLICOS. Intervenções artísticas em bairros de habitação social construídos durante o período do Estado Novo em Lisboa

• Main Author: Inês Andrade
• Format: Article
• Language: Catalan
• Published: Universitat de Barcelona 2007-04-01
• Series: On the W@terfront
• Online Access: http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/waterfront/article/view/18927

Lisbon’s growth of the population starting from half of the XXth century forced, central and local authorities of the Estado Novo, to the development of a series of residential plans for social housing that was based in the expropriation policy carried out by the mayor of the city, at the same time that Secretary of the Public Works, Eng. Duarte Pacheco. Diverse housing operations extended to the long and wide of the city, but, especially, they were developed in the oriental area of the city. Olivais appears today, with the neighborhood of Alvalade, as two of the paradigms of application of the ideas of the modern movement in the urban development. In this case, also, this application went total when incorporating the synthesis of the arts in the construction of the territory