Ler História 52 / 2007
Dossier: Describe the City
Frédéric Vidal
Ruas (streets) and sítios (sites) in Lisbon of the XIXth century. Uses and classifications in four repertories of the streets of the city.Tiago Baptista
Première and neighborhood cinema halls in Lisbon (1924-1932)
Graça Índias Cordeiro
Between the street and the landscape. Considerations on Lisbon urbanityJoão Pedro Silva Nunes
Lisbon’s dormitories: technical discourses and press images (1959-1974)
Studies
Maria Carlos Radich
An urban and cosmopolitan cowJosé D’Assunção Barros
Cinema and History – the functions of the cinema as agent, source and representation of History
Homeage to A. H. de Oliveira Marques
Organized by Benedicta Duque Vieira
Testimonies of José Mattoso, António Reis, Bernardo Vasconcelos e Sousa e Benedicta Duque Vieira
Documents in Study
Pedro Urbano
To provide, share and bequeath: The Palmela’s house heritage
Debates
Carlos Maurício
Discrimination in the European Union: separate worlds, common goal
Abstracts
Ler História 52 / 2007
Ruas (streets) and sítios (sites) in Lisbon of the XIXth century. Uses and classifications in four repertories of the streets of the city.This article analyzes the composition and the organization of the first directories of the streets of Lisbon, elaborated at the beginning of the XIXth century. These directories contribute to unify the urban space which is transformed into object of autonomous knowledge. It is this image of the city as a streets network that progressively emerges. This process corresponds to an instrumentalisation of the urban space, allowing the emergence of new practices and customs, mainly to facilitate the circulation in the city. These directories also evidence the diversity of conception modes of the urban space. The city is always described on the plural.
Première and neighbourhood cinema halls in Lisbon (1924-1932)The growing number of «neighbourhood cinema halls» in Lisbon created new reception habits and contributed to the progressive massification of the movies in the late twenties, early thirties. This process was perceived as a threat to the spatial and social priority of the première cinema halls in the city «centre». For that reason, the contemporary trade press contains many depreciative descriptions of the «neighbourhood cinema halls». Always comparing them to the première halls, in ways akin to the journalistic sub-gender of the reports on Lisbon’s bas-fonds, those descriptions created an image of the audiences from the cinema halls more distant from the Baixa-Chiado area as popular, riotous, and old-fashioned. At the same time, the city «centre» reinforced its status as the city’s cultural, commercial and entertainment centre.
Between the street and the landscape. Considerations on Lisbon urbanity
A short Lisbon description, published by the 1930s – «Lisboa. Da sua vida e da sua beleza», from José Sousa Gomes (1937) – inspires this paper about the way that the urbanism of this particular city has been built discursively, along several years. Some structural elements, their relationships and the different observer’s scales are identified in that process. Cityscape (urban landscape), street, picturesque, urbanism, change/continuity are some of the major themes helping us to the intelligibility of that city.
Lisbon’s dormitories: technical discourses and press images (1959-1974)During the 1960’s Lisbon and its contiguous municipalities undergo a strong urbanization process. The territories between the urban front and the suburban places are rapidly and intensively occupied both by housing and a commuting population. In this article two types of dormitory descriptions produced in a delimited time-frame are apprehended and interpreted. The first one is composed by expert descriptions generated within the sphere of the Ministério das Obras Públicas as a part of a regional planning instrument – Plano Director da Região de Lisboa. The second one comprises images constructed and transmitted by the press. Both descriptions provide qualitative evidence of the social and territorial changes engendered by the transformation of the industrial city into the post-war metropolis.
An urban and cosmopolitan cowThis article follows the way of the Dutch cow through continental Portugal and to identify the phases it crossed, since the 18.th century, when it was brought in here, until near nowadays. During a long initial period, about which little has been discovered, that kind of cow was placed in Lisbon and neighbourhoods, to supply the town market. After this first phase it came the spreading through the rural territory, without a significant enlargement of the milk market that allowed the cow to be diverted from its milky function. Therefore, the cow has been forced to work and to compete, in mixed functions, with the native breeds. Only during the second half of the 20.th century – it’s the third phase – the enlargement of the milk market, helped by other favourable conditions for the producers, finally allowed the cow to find its genuine calling.
Cinema and History – the functions of the cinema as agent, source and representation of HistoryInside the ambit of a convergence between Cultural History and Political History, this article attempts to clarify and discuss the several possibilities of interaction and the possible relations between History and Cinema, particularly examining the Cinema as historical font, as way for the historical representation, as technology to support the historiographyc work, and as an historical agent that interferes in the historical process. In the last part of the article they are presented the modalities of films that maintain relations with the historical representation.