Iniciativa Bairros Críticos - Bairro do Lagarteiro

• Autor(a) principal: Carlos Ribeiro
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Outros Autores: Eduarda Ferreira, Isabel Dias, Mário Fernandes, Paula Guerra, Rui Mealha
• Tipo de documento: Relatório
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/73624
• topic: Economia, Sociologia, Geografia, Outras ciências sociais; Economics, Sociology, Geography, Other social sciences

Living the city calls for an active citizenship, which presupposes the existence of a social norm of reference in terms of rights and duties. The right to the city is associated with the exercise of other rights including the right to housing, the right to employment, the right to the services, the right to culture and quality of urban life and citizenship. Accordingly, and at the opposite pole, we can then consider that some areas of the city, including the disqualified bairros are places where there are cumulatively the largest bottlenecks in the face of these rights. Whereas the geographical location and spatial configuration of these areas affect the practices and experiences of those who reside here, noted that the Bairro do Lagarteiro is the most peripheral in the city of Porto and is registered in an area marked by a still strong rural, poorly served in terms of public transport and a network of access roads deficient. In this sense, the Bairro do Lagarteiro appears as a cluster residential disintegrated the urban environment, closed in on itself, away from the city and dominant target of a process of socio-spatial segregation. As a starting point, it seems important to note that the Bairro, even if we assume as the basic unit of analysis and intervention for the rehabilitation of the social, cultural and economic, is limited for the implementation of a urban qualification. The city is more than a juxtaposition of bairros, so the point of view of urban and social integration have to be integrated within a draft strategy for structuring the city in order to achieve the necessary coordination between the city and urban. In this sense, it is essential to articulate the intervention in the Bairro do Lagarteiro with the Project for the Park East and all the necessary qualifications of the Eastern Zone of the city.