Abstract
The riverside area from the eastern end of the Lisbon city towards the north is today a repository of urban forms and territorial situations which largely exemplify important processes of modernization of the region in terms of its built structure, but also its social, economic and ecological fabrics. Farms, groves and vegetable gardens remain among factories, infrastructural corridors, between urban settlements and even within them. Apartment buildings, rural houses and small factories sometimes coexist within the same block. Social housing estates from several programs exist, alongside working class and middle-class neighbourhoods, illegal housing ranges from single-family homes to multi-storey buildings. Ridges and valleys intertwine in a complex mesh of forestry, farmland and fallow land.
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Notes
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Many of these have already been properly legalized, while others are on the process of doing so.
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The limits of the Region were only formalized only in 1959, as seen in Chap. 2.
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Because the Carregado Power Plant was installed north of Vila Franca de Xira.
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Throughout the written documents that comprise this work, it is clear that the words ‘region’ and ‘regional’ are used to designate both the Metropolitan Region—i.e. the Lisbon City and its surrounding municipalities at both banks of Tagus—and the specific area of the riverside of Loures and Vila Franca de Xira. For clarification, this plan is, by today’s standards, not a regional one, but rather an intermunicipal or a sub-regional one.
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Catujal e Unhos are reserved for urban expansion at a later time, with priority given to the other cores (CSOP 1955, sheet 53).
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Povos and Vala do Carregado are not included in any of the drawings of the Foreplan which we could consult.
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Castanheira do Ribatejo is not included in any of the drawings of the Foreplan which we could consult.
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The definitive regulation of the Foreplan does not seem to be deposited in the Municipal Archives of Loures or Vila Franca de Xira, although most of its content is assessable through the technical report of the CSOP. A letter from the DGSU to the Loures Council dated 6 December 1956 includes as an attachment a copy of the full regulation for the Rural Zone.
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Letter of 20/09/1950 from the DGSU to the Loures council. Deposited at the Loures Municipal Archive, Process 2116—sheet without number.
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Law 2005, published in Diário da República 54/1945—Série I, 14-03-1945.
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Lisbon was not involved, considering that the Gröers’ suggestion of annexing Moscavide to Lisbon was never followed through, with that town remaining, today, a part of the Loures municipality.
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The Vila Franca de Xira PGU, discussed in Chap. 1, seems to be in development at the same time as the Foreplan.
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This neighbourhood, constituted by detached houses with surrounding yards, has recently been legalized.
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Marat-Mendes, T., Silva Lopes, S., Cunha Borges, J., d’Almeida, P.B. (2022). Putting the Food System into Perspective: A Case Study from Lisbon to Vila Franca de Xira. In: Atlas of the Food System. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94833-7_9
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