Arquitectura da cidade, limite e forma urbana

The paper focuses on the relationship between urban fabric, town limits and the built form of the city, characterizing the significant moments of its evolution in the context of the european city. The hypothesis put forward suggests that the abandonment of a built town limit as a current practice in the nineteenth century brought with it innovative modes applying to the geometrical configuration of the urban fabric that would become firmly established during the first decades of the twentieth century; and it also suggests the construction of the city is the result of the articulation of three specific complementary practices: The practice of the limit, the practice of the plan and the practice of edification. The six chapters of part one characterize the nature of the basic modes of space organization and their counterpart in the traditional structure of urban space and form. The four chapters of part two characterize the influence of the Renaissance treaties in the evolution of the idea of the city, introducing the concept of a classical urban project. The seven chapters of part three characterize the evolution of the complementary practices and its effects on the morphological structure, taking Lisbon as a case studyAvailable from Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Servico de Informacao e Documentacao, Av. D. Carlos I, 126, 1200 Lisboa / FCT - Fundação para o Ciência e a TecnologiaSIGLEPTPortuga