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ABSTRACT
This report resumes the activity of the Final’s Project discipline and it main goal is to present and to explain the
project’s strategy used throughout the overall school year of 2011-2012.
During the XXth century, we have verified the growing of the big cities of the so called western world. This overall
cities size expansion have created the need for several infrastructures able to connect the old cities to the new
urban neighborhoods which have meanwhile emerged. This new suburban cities have grew majorly without any
type of control and urban plans, which have led to a discontinuous appearance without any plan and regulation.
So, those new suburban cities spread throughout the neighborhoods of the big cities, allied with the new mobility
channels have spoilt the urban image and specially the public areas.
In this Project the area of our study is located in the Lisbon ring, northwest, showing many of the observed weaknesses
occurring in the main cities suburban areas. The years 60’s of the last century have been characterized
by a fast and chaotic growth of the constructions in the suburban areas. So it happened in Lisbon, in the Benfica
and S. Domingos de Benfica quarters. The verified spoilt of the urban image, associated with a poor planned area,
inexistence of parking, public areas and links among green areas and the strong presence of the mobility channels,
have motivated the reflections for new solutions and strategies to implement them, which could be able to
promote new urban dynamics able to improve the actual scenario. The Lusíada Avenue have than emerged as the
starting point of all this project, as this urban element is clearly identified as the major cause of a discontinuity
observed in this Lisbon area.
The project is than focused in presenting continuity solutions to this particular broken area. The solutions are
based in two different approaches and or concepts. The first approach will study the urban roads influence history,
which have went, or not, through a transformation process and establishing a connection with “ what could have
been and what could be able to be” the Lusiada Av., in an attempt to reduce it negative impact by the improvement
of the already existing links, throughout it neighborhoods. The second one have studied the cities strategies which
have pursuit during their past recent history, an articulation among their open spaces structures, namely urban
main roads, walking routes, public spaces and green areas, to reach and maintain the urban continuity.
It is commonly accepted that the revitalization of this territories, will have to adopt strategies to maintain the urban
continuity, based on the improved value of the resulting spaces and on the mobility infrastructures integration in
the urban areas where they are in. With this actions and strategies an urban articulated area will be settled promoting
a diversified communications network, connecting quarters, public assets and services, green areas and
transport, among others.
URBAN CONTINUITY | URBAN ROADS | PUBLIC SPACES | GREEN AREAS | WALKING ROUTES