Space and memory: Writen sources and oral history when planning urban renewal

• Margarida Reis e Silva ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade de Lisboa

     Universidade de Lisboa

     Socorro, Portugal

     
• Localización: Intangibility Matters: IPERION CH International Conference on the values of tangible heritage: IMaTTe 2017 / coord. por Marluci Menezes, Dória Rodrigues Costa, Jose Delgado Rodrigues, 2017, ISBN 9789724922959, págs. 279-288
• Idioma: inglés
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  • When studying the buildings that make up the tangible heritage of urban neighborhoods, Oral History can bring new perspective: providing references otherwise unknown or determining assigned value, thus rearranging the way we plan urban renewal. In Lisbon, the old industrial boroughs of Marvila and Beato became forgotten quarters, when factories and wine wholesalers halted activity in the 1980s. With Expo 98, the World´s Fair held in Lisbon, there was a timid return, as these neighborhoods stood between downtown Lisbon and the fair´s venue; none the less, interest died out, and the region´s old convents and palaces, along with its nineteenth century´s factories and working-class housing units, remained in near-abandonment, a parth that finally seems changing now. An academic study used Oral History as one of the methods to plan a much needed rehabilitation of these territories. This essay describes the process and its conclusions so far.