Corredores verdes como estratégia de valorização da paisagem e recreio público: caso prático do ramal ferroviário de Aljustrel

• Author(s): Timóteo, Maria Inês Pimenta Abranches
• Date: 2015
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/10927
• Origin: Repositório da UTL
• Subject(s): greenway; Aljustrel; recreation; ecology; heritage
• Document Type: Master thesis
• Language: Portuguese
• Advisor(s): Ribeiro, Luís Paulo Faria
• Contributor(s): Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa

Description

Mestrado em Arquitetura Paisagista - Instituto Superior de Agronomia

The greenway movement has been evolving since the 19th century, with the creation of axes in cities, along with boulevards, and Olmsted’s parkway concept. The industrial revolution caused an increase of awareness in ecology, along with a set of park and ecologic network projects that aimed towards conservation and sustainability. At present, these corridors are mainly known as the term greenway, with various authors highlighting their connecting, recreation, leisure, environmental and patrimonial conservation and protection functions. They also fall into different categories, such as river corridors, recreation corridors, ecologic corridors, historic/scenic/cultural corridors and greenway network. Integrated inside recreation corridors’ typology are trails that used old rail-ways, canals, waterlines and ridgelines, so, linear routes that obtain new functions. Railways have been highly intervened upon, in the last decades, with very well-known projects such as the Promenade Plantée, in Paris, and the High Line, in New York. Portugal has been reusing old railroads, following REFER’s (current IP, S.A.) “Ecotrail” Strategic Plan (“Plano Estratégico de Ecopistas”), in order to project trails, for the inhabitants, in non-motorized paths that preserve the environment and quality of life. With 11 of these trails inaugurated and 5 to intervene, Aljustrel’s railway is one of the later, inserted in a municipality rich in mining history and ecologic value. A proposal for a greenway in Aljustrel, inserted in recreation corridor’s typology, has all the potential to also be considered an ecological and historic/scenic/cultural corridor. Therefore, the intervention of this path aims at sustainable corridor that offers a recreational, ecological and patrimonial space to the locals and visitors, through a plan that includes three different yet combined routes.