Habitação em massa para a classe média entre a cidade e o subúrbio: o caso da quinta das lavadeiras.

Abstract

Em meados da década de 1950, milhares de pessoas abandonavam as zonas rurais do interior português rumo à capital em busca de melhores condições de vida. O crescimento populacional nos seus territórios periféricos aumentava assim expo-nenfiaomente em partifuoar no oimite nortefom um enorme impafto nov Áuxov de triIego penduoar e na evpeFuoaomo imoeioiiria afetando uma classe média emergente, ignorada pelo Estado, explorada e orientada para a economia de mercado.

In the mid-1950s, millions of people left the rural areas of the Portuguese interior. They came to Lisbon in search of new and better living conditions. The population growth in the peripheral territories of the capital started to increase exponentially, FompOeteOy Fhanging itV OandVFape partiFuOarOy on the northern Iringe Zith a huge impaFt on Fommuter traIÀF ÁoZV and property speculation, affecting an emerging middle class that was ignored by the state and exploited by an economically-driven market. Outside the narratives of high culture, these places have progressively embodied the image of postmodernity’s greatest evils: the anonymous character of (sub)urban life, mass housing and the ‘motorway’. Their study has been overlooked and, consequently, an important part of the city’s fabric.