Portuguese Capital Research Articles

Religious plurality within a catholic tradition: A study of the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, and a brief comparison with Mainland Portugal

In the last few years, since Portugal has become home to a great number of immigrants, the religious situation has changed significantly in the urban centers of the country. This article sets out the initial findings of a project that is studying this new religious diversity in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon. In this sense, the principal aim is to show the first broad outlines of the new religious plurality in Lisbon.

Urban Landscapes: Houses, Streets and Squares of 18th Century Lisbon

AbstractThis article retraces Lisbon's urban evolution, both planned and spontaneous, from the beginning of the Age of Discovery until the first decades of the 19th century. It highlights the 1755 earthquake as a powerful agent of transformation of Lisbon, both of the city's image and architecture and of street life. The article begins by summing up urban policies and urban planning from Manuel I's reign (1495-1521) to João V's (1707-1750); it goes on to depict Lisbon's daily life during the Ancien Regime, focusing on the uses of public and private spaces by common people. The Pombaline plans for the rebuilding of Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake are reappraised, stressing the radically original morphology and functions of the new streets and housing types. The contrast between pre- and post-1755 Lisbon's public spaces is sharp, in both their design and use, and gradually streetscape became increasely regulated in accordance with emergent bourgeois social and urban values. More than a century later, the city's late 19th- and early 20th-century urban development still bore the mark of Pombaline plans, made just after 1755, for the revived Portuguese capital.

Lisboa Setecentista: O espaço da Ilustração

Pombal reconstruiu Lisboa de acordo com seu ideal de cidade. Racionalizada, regular e geométrica, a Capital Portuguesa tornou-se a realidade sonhada pelo Marquês. O Ministro Português transferiu a ação política com a ordem urbana, combatendo ao arcaísmo que havia dominado a sociedade Portuguesa.

Industry, Family, and Class: The Working-Class Community in Barreiro

Frequently placed on the edges of scientific debate and analyzed in relation to problems or theoretical constructs specific to other social groups, the portrait of the “working-class family” is too often the product of logical deductions and a sort of no-man's land. The research project described by the present article concerns factories, working-class groups, and family strategies in Barreiro, a Portuguese industrial town near Lisbon, the Portuguese capital. Special attention is given to reconstructing the industrial experience at a regional level and to the study of workers in the cork and heavy metallurgical industries of Barreiro. The results suggest the internal diversity of the working-class world and two different kinds of linkeage between family and workplace life—the survival strategy of cork workers in the 1920s, and the promotion strategy of the metal workers in the 1950s.