Abstract
Abstract The rapid urban growth had a strong impact on the living conditions of the inhabitants of the cities. Port Cities experienced significant urban growth in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Trade growth and technological changes in ships led to the construction of new port facilities that completely transformed the landscape of port cities. Portuguese governments hoped that the modernization of the port and the establishment of railways would enable transformation of Castile into a hinterland of the Lisbon port. Emerging problems in the early stages of this process were related to hygiene, traffic, safety and the urban image of the city. Due to their relations with the outside world, the impact of migration and the existence of a fluid labour population, port cities sometimes had the image of being dangerous and unsafe havens. It was difficult to survey the flows of population and to control for goods, people and diseases. The aims of this article are to assess the way in which Lisbon and its port followed this international path and to highlight why its actualization was far behind the authorities’ expectations.
Highlights
The rapid urban growth in the Contemporary period had a strong impact in the life conditions of the inhabitants of the cities
Paradigms and social practices aimed at transforming a city - seen as unsafe and unhealthy - in a mirror of modernity professionally run and anchored on scientific progress
At the end of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century, the development of the functions needed to control the modernization of the cities involved the participation of new professionals whose fields of action were set up anchoring in scientific progress (Dagenais, Mayer, Saunier, 2000)
Summary
The rapid urban growth in the Contemporary period had a strong impact in the life conditions of the inhabitants of the cities. At the end of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century, the development of the functions needed to control the modernization of the cities involved the participation of new professionals whose fields of action were set up anchoring in scientific progress (Dagenais, Mayer, Saunier, 2000). Port Cities contributed importantly to urban growth in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century as they were good places for industrialization (Lees, Lees, 2007). On the Iberian Peninsula, even the Atlantic ports, like Lisbon were stagnant during the first half of the nineteenth century Mendoza considers that their excellent location for long-distance sea routes was diminished by the railway system that linked the north with the south of Europe (Mendoza, 1992). The aims of this paper is to access the gap between expectations and reality in the in the planning and surveillance of the Lisbon’s port
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