Património e regeneração: transformações urbanas da área envolvente aos canais aquáticos da cidade de Aveiro

Abstract

The canals that run through the urban center are the heritage of this city, being the market image of the latter and they are absolutely unique in Portugal. They are identified as structural instruments that had conditioned the urban shape and its evolution. Based on these firstlings, the research aims to check: a) if the urban development supported by the dichotomous analysis between morphology and urban transformations, considers the aquatic canals relevant sceneries, through the last two centuries, relevant sceneries for the social support of the Aveiro city; b) if from the existing urban form, the strategies that identify the city of Aveiro – expansion, density and the main center -, they contribute for the regeneration of the urban space. In order to achieve the already stated objectives, the research pretends to structure a range of intervention perceptions as an analysis tool for a connecting junction for quantitative and qualitative datas, being the main focus of this research, the regeneration of urban areas adjacent to the canals.