Do melhoramento ao planeamento na 1a metade do sec. XX. RUAS enquanto laboratorios tipo-morfologicos no centro urbano portuense

The proposed essay it is an attempt to reconstruct specific moments in long-term processes of the urban transformation in the Oporto's city centre. Using as case studies the Sá da Bandeira Street (as a paradigm), and other nearby streets as well as their buildings, the aim is to reveal and underline inner formal associations between the transformation of some streets' morphological character and the emergence, during the 1st half of the 20th century, of a new building type: the collective housing. In the mid 40s, new strategies were being set towards the city expansion, specially regarding the street's system redefinition. Several streets underwent through this occurrence, and step-by-step incorporated modifications in the urban plot's division and their construction logic. Inevitably, this carried remarkable changes in the global image of the city. The research hypothesis is that in this process, several streets can be seen as "typo-morphological laboratorie