The "Script" of a New Urban Layout: Mobility, Environment, and Embellishment in Lisbon's Streets (1850–1910)

Silva, Álvaro Ferreira da; Sousa, M. Luísa

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“…Soon after the successful renovation of the Rossio Square, other emblematic public spaces in downtown Lisbon were paved using the new mosaic technique. In 1889, the black and white artistic pavement expanded to the central Liberdade Avenue, and six years later, it was adopted as the standard sidewalk paving technique in Lisbon (Bairrada 1985 ; Silva and Sousa 2019 ).…”

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Walking on Geodiversity: the Artistic Stone-Paved Sidewalks of Lisbon (Portugal) and Their Heritage Value

Silva

Pereira

2022

Geoheritage

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Sidewalks are not a trivial topic. They are a fundamental element of streets, the main public spaces in urban environments. In modern cities, paving materials are mostly artificial. In Portugal, stone-paved sidewalks are still prevalent and quite characteristic. Walking down a street, you do not need to lift your eyes off the ground to know you are in Portugal. In nineteenth-century Lisbon, a new type of pavement was introduced, the calçada portuguesa , the Portuguese artistic pavement mainly made with white and black limestone or basalt. This pavement is examined herein. More than simply highlighting its geological components, the different meanings and values of the calçada will be discussed from a semiotic perspective. It will also be debated how this geocultural heritage asset became key in shaping the city’s image. How it boosted Lisbon’s memorability, thus generating a strong sense of place among its inhabitants. So much so that these days the calçada patterns are everywhere, from table ware to post stamps, and even on socks. And yet, the long-term survival of the artistic pavement may be in peril. To ensure its preservation, the calçada portuguesa was recently included in the Portuguese Cultural Heritage list, a crucial step towards UNESCO world heritage status. However, in the document ratifying its newly attained status, the geological component of the pavement is mostly neglected. To maximize the conservation effort, the many meanings and heritage values of the calçada , namely the geological ones, should be actively involved, this work hopefully contributing to this end.

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Section: The Artistic Sidewalks Of Lisbon a Brief Introductionmentioning

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Walking on Geodiversity: the Artistic Stone-Paved Sidewalks of Lisbon (Portugal) and Their Heritage Value

Silva

Pereira

2022

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Pavement publics in late nineteenth-century Stockholm

Emanuel

2023

The Journal of Transport History

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This article presents a case study of pavement regulation and usage in nineteenth-century Stockholm, probing how urbanites’ interactions on and access to pavements were contested and negotiated, in the process shaping the publicness of streets. Utilising press coverage, it moves beyond a focus on infrastructure and political discourse, to capture urban dwellers’ perspectives, claims and interactions. The article shows that, in favouring circulation, Stockholm's pavement regulations expelled or made subsistence-driven activities illegitimate. Pavement circulation also secured undisturbed, anonymous walking and the ability to maintain a distanced attitude towards others – to be private while in public. Yet pavements featured as a prominent public space not only because it was ordered and controlled, but because urbanites of all sorts fought for access. Next to allegedly “modern” usages, city pavements remained home to age-old but marginalised street practices, as well as middle-class women who had begun to claim their equal right of use.

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The "Script" of a New Urban Layout: Mobility, Environment, and Embellishment in Lisbon's Streets (1850–1910)

Cited by 2 publications

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Walking on Geodiversity: the Artistic Stone-Paved Sidewalks of Lisbon (Portugal) and Their Heritage Value

Walking on Geodiversity: the Artistic Stone-Paved Sidewalks of Lisbon (Portugal) and Their Heritage Value

Pavement publics in late nineteenth-century Stockholm

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