A dimensão social e simbólica da rua

• Autor(a) principal: Alves, Fernando Brandão
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/tpu.v0i1.844

For more than a century, the street has been the scene of successive trials, directed not only to its own physical structure but also to the relationships it establishes with the surrounding buildings and spaces. The great turning for a new model of street occurs in the XX century with the modern postulates - CIAM -, which, in one way or another, deprived the street of its traditional and civic function, charging it with overloads driven by the motorization that led to its social disruption. But it was in the street (and in the square) that citizens’ movement and life were institutionalized. In this article we retake the narrative of the traditional street importance, as a privileged place of interaction and citizenship, in the light of its intrinsic urban qualities, such as scale containment, meeting-place notion, social and civic interaction, image and symbology, security and comfort, among others. At the same time, one emphasizes its capacity to perpetuate, even today, in the contemporary city, the urban qualities indispensable not only to match the inclusive civic life, but also the cultural capital imbued in the tradition of the harmonious principles of composition of spaces, probably an equilibrium factor between the confrontation of morphological diversity and the complexity of recent urban structures.