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Perspectives for a Historic Urban Landscape Approach in Porto, Portugal

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The Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape invites states parties to consider more sustainable development models for urban conservation policies and practices. Urban conservation strategies have a long history in the city of Porto. Hence, this background has a direct influence on the nomination process of the Historic Centre of Porto, inscribed on the World Heritage list in 1996. Presenting a perspective of the existing strategies and policies in urban conservation management and reflecting on the implementation of a HUL approach in Porto, this paper analyses several tools, namely, the Municipal Master Plan (PDM) and the WH Management Plan, among others. The results indicate the existence of strengths and potentialities that need to be developed and improved, through the increase of more participatory processes, as well as more investment in identifying the values and their relation to specific threats.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Hereafter HUL Recommendation

  2. 2.

    Regime Jurídico dos Instrumentos de Gestão Territorial: RJIGT (Law Framework for Spatial Planning Tools): Decree-Law no. 380/99 of 22 September, recently reviewed by the Decree-Law no. 80/2015, of 14 May

  3. 3.

    Also known as Instrumentos de Gestão Territorial (Spatial Planning Tools), being constituted by the PDM (Plano Director Municipal: Municipal Master Plan), the PU (Plano de Urbanização: Urban Plan) and the PP (Plano de Pormenor: Detailed Plan)

  4. 4.

    Urban development in Portugal is ruled by the PDMs, which are crucial legal instrument in the management of the municipal territory. The PDM defines the strategic framework of territorial development of the municipality, being the reference instrument for the elaboration of the other municipal plans (RJIGT).

  5. 5.

    Gabinetes Técnicos Locais: GTL

  6. 6.

    To shorten, in this article authors opted to use the 1996 property name – Historic Centre of Porto.

  7. 7.

    Decree-Law no. 794/76, of 5 November, changed by the Decree-Laws no. 313/80, of 19 August and no. 400/84, of 31 December.

  8. 8.

    Área de Reabilitação Urbana: ARU (Law no. 32/2012, of 14 August).

  9. 9.

    Through the Housing and Urban Rehabilitation Institute (Instituto de Reabilitação Urbana: IHRU).

  10. 10.

    Direção Geral do Património Cultural: DGPC.

  11. 11.

    Direção Regional da Cultural Norte: DRCN.

  12. 12.

    Direção Geral dos Monumentos e Edificios Nacionais: DGEMN.

  13. 13.

    The CRUARB (Comissariado para a Renovação Urbana da Área de Ribeira/Barredo) was the entity in charge of the rehabilitation and recovering process in the Porto Historic Centre (including the WH classified area) since 1974 until 2003. It has been replaced in 2004 by Porto Vivo SRU.

  14. 14.

    The PDM Heritage Charter is a static tool that can be periodically updated (e.g. the 2006 PDM Heritage Charter was updated in 2012).

  15. 15.

    The following Public Interest Ensembles (CIP) are currently listed: Avenida dos Aliados, Avenida da Boavista, Avenida Montevideo, Praça da Republica and Rua Álvares Cabral, Conjunto da Foz Velha and Historic Zone of Porto.

  16. 16.

    The historic centre considered in Management Plan corresponds to the area nationally listed as IIP in 1997 (see Fig. 23.3), a slightly larger than the area inscribed in the World Heritage list.

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  2. Urban and Spatial Planning, Porto, Portugal

    Ana Tarrafa Silva

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Ferreira, T.C., Silva, A.T. (2019). Perspectives for a Historic Urban Landscape Approach in Porto, Portugal. In: Pereira Roders, A., Bandarin, F. (eds) Reshaping Urban Conservation. Creativity, Heritage and the City, vol 2. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8887-2_23

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