Summary - TST 38
TRANSPORTES, SERVICIOS Y TELECOMUNICACIONES
Magda de AVELAR PINHEIRO
Railways, cities, and stations in Portugal, From the end of the XIXTH Century to the 21ST Century
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[ Abstract ]
This article aims to relate the construction of railway stations
and urban planning theories and practices. It also aims to look
for the place of railway stations in modern urban planning
taught in schools under the influence of the Garden City
movement. It also searches for the place of railways stations in
the urbanistic ideals of the architects organized in the
International Congresses of Modern Architecture. In post-world
War II the New Towns aimed to combine modernism and Garden-City,
giving a central place to railway stations. The railway stations
gained new functions and new architectural models, especially in
the Villes-Nouvelles of Paris. Seeking a comparative approach,
the aim is to the study the Portuguese case from the end of
nineteenth century until the beginning of the XXI century.