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Catarina Camarinhas
Catarina Camarinhas, PhD, is Programme Manager at UN-Habitat. She has worked for over twenty-five years on governance, development planning and sustainable urban development issues, including at the United Nations, academia and local government. She was Chief Technical Advisor of the Low Emission Climate Resilient Development Programme in the Maldives and promoted ecosystems-based development approaches and integrated local development collaborative strategies in support to decentralisation processes in several countries.
She holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Development Planning from the University of Paris – Sorbonne, a Masters degree in the same area from the University of Lisbon, and a degree in Architecture (University of Lisbon, 1993). Before joining the United Nations, she worked at the University of Lisbon as Professor in the field of Urban development planning and was planning officer for the city of Lisbon.
She was Visiting Professor at the Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and at Leibniz Univ. Hannover, Germany. She was Faculty member of the European Union Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree, a prestigious, integrated, international study programme, jointly delivered by an international consortium composed by the following universities: Paul Cézanne University of Aix-Marseille (UPCAM) in France, the University of Seville (US) in Spain, the University of Genoa (USG) in Italy and the Technical University of Lisbon (UTL) in Portugal. She was also faculty and research member of the International Architectural Educational Exchange, an international consortium composed by: Georgia Institute of Technology, École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris - La Villette, Virginia Technological Institute, California State Polytechnic and the Lisbon Univ. She has edited and contributed to a number of books , including L'Urbanisme de Lisbonne, published by L'Harmattan, and several UN reports and publications.
Member of several scientific societies: fellow of The Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers, member of ICOMOS, ISOCARP and Ordem dos Arquitectos (Portugal) where she is also a member of the Urbanism Pool of experts (Colégio de Urbanistas).
She holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Development Planning from the University of Paris – Sorbonne, a Masters degree in the same area from the University of Lisbon, and a degree in Architecture (University of Lisbon, 1993). Before joining the United Nations, she worked at the University of Lisbon as Professor in the field of Urban development planning and was planning officer for the city of Lisbon.
She was Visiting Professor at the Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and at Leibniz Univ. Hannover, Germany. She was Faculty member of the European Union Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree, a prestigious, integrated, international study programme, jointly delivered by an international consortium composed by the following universities: Paul Cézanne University of Aix-Marseille (UPCAM) in France, the University of Seville (US) in Spain, the University of Genoa (USG) in Italy and the Technical University of Lisbon (UTL) in Portugal. She was also faculty and research member of the International Architectural Educational Exchange, an international consortium composed by: Georgia Institute of Technology, École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris - La Villette, Virginia Technological Institute, California State Polytechnic and the Lisbon Univ. She has edited and contributed to a number of books , including L'Urbanisme de Lisbonne, published by L'Harmattan, and several UN reports and publications.
Member of several scientific societies: fellow of The Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers, member of ICOMOS, ISOCARP and Ordem dos Arquitectos (Portugal) where she is also a member of the Urbanism Pool of experts (Colégio de Urbanistas).
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Link to download: http://biblioteca.fa.ulisboa.pt/index.php/biblioteca-digital/recursos-bfa/revistas/43-novidades/revistas/293-revista-ur-lisboa
Coordination:
Margarida Moreira
Catarina Teles Ferreira Camarinhas
Editorial Team:
Margarida Moreira
Catarina Teles Ferreira Camarinhas
Alexandra Ai Quintas
Miriam Pereira
Authors:
Catarina Camarinhas
Diana Soeiro
Francisco Serdoura
Guilherme Alves Coelho
Helena Almeida
Inês Rodrigues
João Pedro Costa
João Rafael Santos
José Nicolau Tudella
Luís Filipe Mendes
Luís Guimarães Lobato t
Madalena Cunha Matos
Tânia Beisl Ramos
Vasco Massapina
The Toolkit will be a practical reference for cities to implement principles, policy recommendations and development initiatives on public space. It will also serve the purpose of stimulating the involvement of the citizenry and civil society in securing, developing and managing public space in the city.
Considering the susceptibility of human settlements and built infrastructure, housing policies are crucial in promoting community resilience, especially given Caribbean countries’ multipronged disaster-risk scenarios. Moreover, these policies have the potential to end intergenerational poverty and cut inequality cycles by combatting spatial segregation in cities and providing an opportunity for climate adaptation through adequate urban planning and green infrastructure.
A new generation of Caribbean resilience planning policies will require strong institutional capacities, adjusted with effective communication and knowledge management platforms to manage information and coordination efforts. Therefore, integrated development planning methodologies must ensure availability and access to information and data for better decision-making, attracting the innovation and creative collaboration of all sectors of government and society, and enhancing innovation between technological and indigenous knowledge. Finally, it will be vital to attract investment and benefit from international exchange and best practice in climate resilient development suitable and adaptable for Caribbean SIDS.
O Plano Director de Urbanização de Lisboa seria desenvolvido sob direcção do urbanista francês de origem russa Étienne de Gröer, convidado em 1938 por Duarte
Pacheco para ocupar o cargo de “urbanista-conselheiro técnico de câmara.”
Partindo do relatório e desenhos elaborados por Emídio Abrantes, revistos por Étienne de Gröer e constantes do Arquivo Municipal do Arco do Cego, este artigo pretende
contextualizar o trabalho preparatório daquele que foi o mais importante instrumento de planeamento da cidade de Lisboa e que acabaria por traçar a sua expansão e desenvolvimento urbanístico durante a segunda metade do século XX.
L’ouverture d’une grande « avenue-promenade », à la fin du XIXe siècle, sera le canal d’émergence de l’influence parisienne, à travers le dessin d’une axialité symbolisante de perfection et d’aspiration à la civilisation. L’influence anglaise ouvrira le rêve d’une cité-jardin, l’avenuepromenade/jardin/couloir-vert sera alors incluse dans un projet de « greenbelt ». Les successifs projets pour l’Avenida da Liberdade, axe central de la ville, seront abandonnés et ouvriront la polémique autour du projet pour le centre-ville.
Dans une ville de structure médiévale, d’influence arabe, le projet de modèle réglé ouvrira le conflit avec la ville héritée. Les projets des avenues nommées « nouvelles », les projets d’extension de la ville, feront partie d’une ville future, par opposition à la ville des quartiers historiques, objet, eux-mêmes, de projets de transformation urbaine. Cette opposition ville construite/ville héritée sera une discussion pour le XXe siècle et représentera un essai de globalisation de la culture urbaine, vers un cosmopolitisme importé qui sera toujours un élément de conflit pour la ville de Lisbonne. Le dessin de la ville importé d’ailleurs, traversera le XXe siècle à Lisbonne avec une forte résonance dans les vieux quartiers.
L’analyse des projets pour l’Avenida da Liberdade rend compte des conceptions esthétiques et fonctionnelles qui leurs sont sous-jacentes et qui évoluent avec le temps, montrant un désir d’établir une politique urbaine : un ensemble de stratégies et de pratiques juridiques et financières par lesquelles la Mairie de Lisbonne concrétise son projet de ville.
XXth century urbanism has been an approach for applied scientific methods within the spectrum of urban design and societal organization. Typically, the plan was produced by one person, the town planner, who would be in control of the scientific truth for a society, which, in this process, was represented by the politicians. Place for public opinion was much reduced because urbanism was seen as a science capable of bringing an answer.
The opening of urbanism to multidisciplinary studies has been the first step towards the social share of urban responsibility. Interdisciplinary studies and transdisciplinary approaches have further enhanced this need to engage the society as a whole in urban development strategies and programs. Urban planning, now detached from the first conceptions of scientific urbanism, will consider the plan as a process where the society, rather then very specific and technical disciplines such as engineering or architecture, has the main role.
The presentation focused on three urban development examples that may characterize this change of paradigm in what concerns urban design procedures: the Praça de Espanha development, coordinated by architect Siza Vieira (not implemented), the case of Chelas central square, coordinated by Ambelis (Lisbon’s development agency) with architect Nuno Portas, and the case of Alta de Lisboa, coordinated by SGAL, a society responsible for the project’s urban management.
The paper will analyse the relationships between society, policy and town planning in a European capital in a process of democratic transition, focusing on the international influences of planning ideas and its impact on the construction of Lisbon’s urban model(s) throughout the XXth century. The research was conducted at the “Laboratoire Espaces, Nature et Culture” (CNRS, Paris IV - Sorbonne, Paris 8).
Link to download: http://biblioteca.fa.ulisboa.pt/index.php/biblioteca-digital/recursos-bfa/revistas/43-novidades/revistas/293-revista-ur-lisboa
Coordination:
Margarida Moreira
Catarina Teles Ferreira Camarinhas
Editorial Team:
Margarida Moreira
Catarina Teles Ferreira Camarinhas
Alexandra Ai Quintas
Miriam Pereira
Authors:
Catarina Camarinhas
Diana Soeiro
Francisco Serdoura
Guilherme Alves Coelho
Helena Almeida
Inês Rodrigues
João Pedro Costa
João Rafael Santos
José Nicolau Tudella
Luís Filipe Mendes
Luís Guimarães Lobato t
Madalena Cunha Matos
Tânia Beisl Ramos
Vasco Massapina
The Toolkit will be a practical reference for cities to implement principles, policy recommendations and development initiatives on public space. It will also serve the purpose of stimulating the involvement of the citizenry and civil society in securing, developing and managing public space in the city.
Considering the susceptibility of human settlements and built infrastructure, housing policies are crucial in promoting community resilience, especially given Caribbean countries’ multipronged disaster-risk scenarios. Moreover, these policies have the potential to end intergenerational poverty and cut inequality cycles by combatting spatial segregation in cities and providing an opportunity for climate adaptation through adequate urban planning and green infrastructure.
A new generation of Caribbean resilience planning policies will require strong institutional capacities, adjusted with effective communication and knowledge management platforms to manage information and coordination efforts. Therefore, integrated development planning methodologies must ensure availability and access to information and data for better decision-making, attracting the innovation and creative collaboration of all sectors of government and society, and enhancing innovation between technological and indigenous knowledge. Finally, it will be vital to attract investment and benefit from international exchange and best practice in climate resilient development suitable and adaptable for Caribbean SIDS.
O Plano Director de Urbanização de Lisboa seria desenvolvido sob direcção do urbanista francês de origem russa Étienne de Gröer, convidado em 1938 por Duarte
Pacheco para ocupar o cargo de “urbanista-conselheiro técnico de câmara.”
Partindo do relatório e desenhos elaborados por Emídio Abrantes, revistos por Étienne de Gröer e constantes do Arquivo Municipal do Arco do Cego, este artigo pretende
contextualizar o trabalho preparatório daquele que foi o mais importante instrumento de planeamento da cidade de Lisboa e que acabaria por traçar a sua expansão e desenvolvimento urbanístico durante a segunda metade do século XX.
L’ouverture d’une grande « avenue-promenade », à la fin du XIXe siècle, sera le canal d’émergence de l’influence parisienne, à travers le dessin d’une axialité symbolisante de perfection et d’aspiration à la civilisation. L’influence anglaise ouvrira le rêve d’une cité-jardin, l’avenuepromenade/jardin/couloir-vert sera alors incluse dans un projet de « greenbelt ». Les successifs projets pour l’Avenida da Liberdade, axe central de la ville, seront abandonnés et ouvriront la polémique autour du projet pour le centre-ville.
Dans une ville de structure médiévale, d’influence arabe, le projet de modèle réglé ouvrira le conflit avec la ville héritée. Les projets des avenues nommées « nouvelles », les projets d’extension de la ville, feront partie d’une ville future, par opposition à la ville des quartiers historiques, objet, eux-mêmes, de projets de transformation urbaine. Cette opposition ville construite/ville héritée sera une discussion pour le XXe siècle et représentera un essai de globalisation de la culture urbaine, vers un cosmopolitisme importé qui sera toujours un élément de conflit pour la ville de Lisbonne. Le dessin de la ville importé d’ailleurs, traversera le XXe siècle à Lisbonne avec une forte résonance dans les vieux quartiers.
L’analyse des projets pour l’Avenida da Liberdade rend compte des conceptions esthétiques et fonctionnelles qui leurs sont sous-jacentes et qui évoluent avec le temps, montrant un désir d’établir une politique urbaine : un ensemble de stratégies et de pratiques juridiques et financières par lesquelles la Mairie de Lisbonne concrétise son projet de ville.
XXth century urbanism has been an approach for applied scientific methods within the spectrum of urban design and societal organization. Typically, the plan was produced by one person, the town planner, who would be in control of the scientific truth for a society, which, in this process, was represented by the politicians. Place for public opinion was much reduced because urbanism was seen as a science capable of bringing an answer.
The opening of urbanism to multidisciplinary studies has been the first step towards the social share of urban responsibility. Interdisciplinary studies and transdisciplinary approaches have further enhanced this need to engage the society as a whole in urban development strategies and programs. Urban planning, now detached from the first conceptions of scientific urbanism, will consider the plan as a process where the society, rather then very specific and technical disciplines such as engineering or architecture, has the main role.
The presentation focused on three urban development examples that may characterize this change of paradigm in what concerns urban design procedures: the Praça de Espanha development, coordinated by architect Siza Vieira (not implemented), the case of Chelas central square, coordinated by Ambelis (Lisbon’s development agency) with architect Nuno Portas, and the case of Alta de Lisboa, coordinated by SGAL, a society responsible for the project’s urban management.
The paper will analyse the relationships between society, policy and town planning in a European capital in a process of democratic transition, focusing on the international influences of planning ideas and its impact on the construction of Lisbon’s urban model(s) throughout the XXth century. The research was conducted at the “Laboratoire Espaces, Nature et Culture” (CNRS, Paris IV - Sorbonne, Paris 8).