Open AccessDa afirmação de uma «questão urbana» à produção das primeiras respostas urbanísticas do Estado: crise sanitária, movimento higienista e estruturação do campo burocrático perspetivadas a partir do Porto.
Author(s) -
João Queirós
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
revista da faculdade de letras. série de história/revista da faculdade de letras. série de história
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2183-0460
pISSN - 0871-164X
DOI - 10.21747/0871164x/hist10_2e3
Subject(s) - bureaucracy , urbanism , intervention (counseling) , political science , plague (disease) , humanities , state (computer science) , geography , law , art , architecture , archaeology , politics , psychology , psychiatry , algorithm , computer science
: This article explores the preconditions and modes of affirmation and strengthening of the role of the state in urbanism and urban intervention, taking as reference and example the case of the city of Porto, in Portugal. The sanitary crisis that follows the surge of bubonic plague observed in this city in 1899 is the motto for the development of an analysis on the relevance of the hygienist movement in the production and dissemination of a new way of envisaging the state’s intervention in the city and in the structuring of the bureaucratic field that this specific historic period testifies