Author(s): Jerónimo, Luís Miguel Batista
Date: 2014
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/8248
Origin: Repositório da UTL
Subject(s): hypermodernity; metropolitan landscape; Lisbon metropolitan area; infrastructure; unbuilt space
Author(s): Jerónimo, Luís Miguel Batista
Date: 2014
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/8248
Origin: Repositório da UTL
Subject(s): hypermodernity; metropolitan landscape; Lisbon metropolitan area; infrastructure; unbuilt space
Mestrado em Arquitectura Paisagista - Instituto Superior de Agronomia
The global metropolis, product of the hypermodernity and Information Society, originates within a territory a extensive urbanization, based on technological means, allowing the city to expand into territories that were not previously urban. Taking as starting point the evolution of infrastructure and urban growth in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area along the XX and XXI century, this study aims to contextualize the issue of hypermodernity according to the Portuguese reality in order to identify the social processes that sustain it and what their consequences in shaping the metropolitan territory, focusing the discussion on the formal characteristics of unbuilt space. In order to know and understand the specificities of hypermodernity that resulted in the metropolitan context of Lisbon, this dissertation focuses on a road infrastructural - Circular Regional Interior de Lisboa and adjacent spaces. In this sense it’s developed a methodology that aims to identify the main problems and reveal the potential unbuilt space as a driving element for metropolitan development and rehabilitation: first is made a diachronic study (1); then proceed to an individual experience of the landscape (2) through the delineation of several pathways; and an analysis of the spatial composition and the main dynamics (3) - natural and anthropogenic