A House for the Portuguese People: Genesis and socio-historical trajectory of a neighbourhood of the "economic houses" programme (1938-1974)

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2013

Authors

Virgílio Borges Pereira (Author) FLUP; Queiros, J (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Politix

Vol. 26

Pages: 49-+

ISSN: 0295-2319

Publisher: Armand Colin Editeur

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ISI Web of Knowledge - 1 Citation

Scopus - 3 Citations

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-006-G6P

DOI: 10.3917/pox.101.0049

Abstract (EN): Taking as reference a general reading of the "housing question" during the first half of the 20th century in Portugal, this paper offers an analysis of the process of development of the country's first major state housing policy: the "programme of economic houses" (programa das casas economicas), the answer of the regime (Estado Novo) to the housing crisis the main Portuguese cities faced by that time. Organized in 1933 around the ideal of homeownership of single-family houses in the city periphery, the programme of economic houses was presented as the definite state answer to "the housing problems of the Portuguese people", but was never able to accomplish its wide ambitions. Through the analysis of legislation, archives and the memories of old residents, this paper reconstitutes the processes of social selection, spatial segregation and moral control that organized everyday life in the largest neighbourhood of economic houses in the city of Porto - the neighbourhood of Amial, built in 1938 and expanded in 1958.

Language: French

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 31