Abstract
In Portugal, the recognition of “Cultural Landscapes” is due to the UNESCO category. Many of the local and regional initiatives aims this classification, which are majority disregarded due to unfulfilled and thus abandoned, resulting in lost opportunities. Understanding the territory as a rhizome in which architectural heritage is the catalysing element, despite its density or its expectant value, is the research’s core.
Taking as premise the European and North American proposals and projects of Cultural Landscapes that revitalized ancient industrial areas and their role within a new international paradigm of territorial development and planning, the research was developed from four Alentejo mining sites—Lousal, Aljustrel, S. Domingos and Pomarão—which embody the proposal of the Cultural Landscape of the Alentejo Pyrite. From the common and specific analysis of evolutional, geographical, urban, architectural and heritage contexts, it is presented the structural, classifying and compositional synthesis of the public, semi-public and dwelling spaces, which underlie the proposal’s contexture. This paper reflects upon the future of this body of work from the academic scope to being operative in the public planning sphere and regional/local interventions.
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For example, Spanish agglomerates or even other satellite sites of variable scale (as the Faleiros neighborhood in the case of Lousal or, for instance, other integrating sites of the S.Domingos mining complex).
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This route has equally the value of presenting a cross-border potential regarding the territory reading, each site can be analyzed according to the provided classification established by the analysis presented on 3.
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This paper could not be done without the availability of various entities and people that provided for the numerous data both written and graphic. The authors are thus thankful to Prof. Manuel Francisco Pereira from IST (responsible for the museum and archive of the university geologic and mines department); to Dr. João Matos, responsible for the Beja delegation of LNEG; to Dr. Artur Martins from the Municipal Museum of Aljustrel; to the Technical Director António Delgado and Engineer Daniela Petronilho from ALMINA S.A—Minas do Alentejo; to Mafalda Abrunhosa from the Lousal Ciência Viva Center; to Architects Carlos Fernandes and Nídia Maria from Grândola County; to Mr. Horster from La Sabina S.A; to Sara Ribeiro from Ferrão Martins Fundation and to Arch. Rui Galvão Carvalho from Mértola County.
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Oliveira, M.D., Ribeiro, J.T. (2016). “The Cultural Landscape of the Alentejo Pyrite”: What’s Next?. In: Katsoni, V., Stratigea, A. (eds) Tourism and Culture in the Age of Innovation. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27528-4_5
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