Housing and Citizenship: Building Social Rights in Twentieth-Century Portugal

Pinto, Pedro Ramos

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“…These settlements, an expression of informal subaltern urbanism, were called clandestinos . Residents depended on manual casual employment, typically construction or agricultural labour (Pinto ). Vegetable gardening and small livestock husbandry were key means of subsistence or income supplement and an integral part of the rural migrant, working class peri‐urban way of life (this pattern is replicated in many Southern European cities; see Domene and Sauri on Barcelona).…”

Section: Class Subaltern Urbanism and The Emergence Of Autonomous Gmentioning

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Autonomy, Erasure, and Persistence in the Urban Gardening Commons

Ginn

Ascensão

2018

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Collective gardening spaces have existed across Lisbon, Portugal for decades. This article attends to the makeshift natures made by black migrants from Portugal's former colonies, and the racial urban geography thrown into relief by the differing fortunes of white Portuguese community gardening spaces. Conceptualising urban gardens as commons‐in‐the‐making, we explore subaltern urbanism and the emergence of autonomous gardening commons on the one hand, and the state erasure, overwriting or construction of top‐down commons on the other. While showing that urban gardening forges commons of varying persistence, we also demonstrate the ways through which the commons are always closely entwined with processes of enclosure. We further argue that urban gardening commons are divergent and cannot be judged against any abstract ideal of the commons. In conclusion, we suggest that urban gardening commons do not have a “common” in common.

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Section: Class Subaltern Urbanism and The Emergence Of Autonomous Gmentioning

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Autonomy, Erasure, and Persistence in the Urban Gardening Commons

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2018

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“…64 The social movements that emerged after the revolution, Ramos Pinto asserts, revealed "how far state-provided housing had come to be regarded as a fundamental social right, but also how much resentment had accumulated towards the regime and its agents [who were] perceived to be denying the people their entitlement." 65 After the fall of Salazar's centralized, corporatist regime, Portugal saw the rise of many new grassroots organizations, particularly workers' and residents' associations. The latter played a vital role in the development of the SAAL program and influenced political decision making at the local leveltasks that were presumably the purview of municipal governments.…”

Section: "Dual Power" and The Right To The Citymentioning

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From House to Home:

Mota

2019

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

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In From House to Home: Social Control and Emancipation in Portuguese Public Housing, 1926–76, Nelson Mota considers public housing policies in Portugal under the dictatorship that ruled there from 1926 to 1974 and during the two years that followed the democratic revolution of April 1974. He reviews key legislative initiatives and projects to show how the dictatorship's policies effectively commodified housing, exerted government control over the working class, and largely excluded the urban poor from the housing market. By contrast, programs developed under the postrevolutionary Serviço de Apoio Ambulatório Local, or SAAL, promoted self-help initiatives that aimed to improve housing conditions for Portugal's poorest citizens, thus securing their economic and social independence and their right to occupy urban space. During the “SAAL spring,” Mota concludes, building homes became more important than selling houses.

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“…In the period between 1910 and 1974, Portugal lived through a variety of political regimes, ranging from the First Republic (1910)(1911)(1912)(1913)(1914)(1915)(1916)(1917)(1918)(1919)(1920)(1921)(1922)(1923)(1924)(1925)(1926) and the military dictatorship (1926)(1927)(1928)(1929)(1930)(1931)(1932) to the constitutional dictatorship of the Estado Novo ("New State") . As in most southern European countries [1], the first steps towards introducing the notion of social assistance policies were taken by a corporatist authoritarian government [2,3], giving rise to a complex web of charitable and pre-welfare agencies and a mode of action that was different from those followed in other countries [4,5].…”

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State-Subsidised Housing and Architecture in 20th-Century Portugal: A Critical Review Outlining Multidisciplinary Implications

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Stable access to affordable quality housing is a core feature of public health principles and practices. In this report, we provide an update on the research project “Mapping Public Housing: A Critical Review of the State-subsidised Residential Architecture in Portugal (1910–1974)” (MdH), developed between 2016 and 2019 at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) in Portugal. This funded research project (PTDC/CPC-HAT/1688/2014) brought together an international and multidisciplinary team composed of architects, sociologists, historians, an economist, an anthropologist, information scientists and archivists, from different academic levels (senior researchers, postdoctoral, PhD and Master’s degree students), adopting a variety of approaches and operating in a range of different contexts. The aim of the research undertaken was to investigate the reality of social and state-subsidised housing in terms of its architecture, while, at the same time, seeking to broaden our understanding of this phenomenon and of the transition to a democratic regime. Furthermore, this research project was designed to contribute towards the development of common ground for supporting decisions in the environmental, social and economic fields relating to housing management, as well as architectural heritage management and protection. This review is based on the submitted application (2015) and final report (2020).

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Housing and Citizenship: Building Social Rights in Twentieth-Century Portugal

Cited by 15 publications

References 10 publications

Autonomy, Erasure, and Persistence in the Urban Gardening Commons

Autonomy, Erasure, and Persistence in the Urban Gardening Commons

From House to Home:

State-Subsidised Housing and Architecture in 20th-Century Portugal: A Critical Review Outlining Multidisciplinary Implications

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