Integrated territorial redevelopment:

The village as habitat and base unit for activating the rural space

Authors

  • Carlos Almeida Marques Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design, Faculdade de Arquitetura, Universidade de Lisboa; Centro de Administração e Políticas Públicas, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Universidade de Lisboa. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0592-6537

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18055/Finis27693

Abstract

This paper discusses issues of rural space and rurality using as a research hypothesis the concept of integrated territorial redevelopment. We started the research with the question of overcoming the urban-rural dichotomy, presenting the formulations proposed by the culturalist, anti-urbanist and naturalist tradition of the 19th and 20th centuries, up to the new city-countryside partnership that is delineated, more recently, by international territorial strategies. The concept of integrated territorial redevelopment focuses on the notion of self-sustaining development and the relationship between territorial vocation and territorial tendency. The Village is assumed as a spatial social planning unit, both in its legal-instrumental dimension and in its rural habitat configuration. In the case study, in a region with low population density, the proposal for the activation of rural villages and the revitalization of the agro-sylvo-pastoral systems of the surrounding areas was elaborated on the basis of territorialization models based on endogenous factors in terms of their sustainability.

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Published

2023-04-30

How to Cite

Almeida Marques, C. (2023). Integrated territorial redevelopment: : The village as habitat and base unit for activating the rural space. Finisterra, 58(122), 89‑116. https://doi.org/10.18055/Finis27693

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