The closing years of the 20th century witnessed profound changes in the European housing market, characterised by an increase in owner-occupied housing; instability of house prices (leading to a serious crisis in some regions, in light of a fall in demand); a change in people's attitude to the housing market, involving a rise in the importance of location, the quality of materials and spaces, environmental sust...
In this article from the book of John Gibbons I Gathered no Moss, we describe the landscape of the Douro see from a small village lost in the slops of this river, Coleja, in the municipality of Carrazeda de Ansiães. John Gibbon's book can be included in travel reports, written by foreign authors, which earn large expansion from the mid 18th century, a body which became known as "travel literature". In these rep...
The aim of this article is to contribute to the analysis of the clandestine housing, those which are built without any licences (allotment and building), and it is based on the study of two clandestine quarters of the Vila Nova de Gaia's «concelho». The present paper tries to summarize the main aspects concerning those clandestine quarters formation processes and their resident population.
This article is a contribution for a better analysis of the problem of clandestine housing, those which are built without any licences (allotment and building). The central target is the comprehension of this phenomenon as a urbanistic reality trying to analyse its both implications social and economical, based on the study of two clandestine quarters of the «Vila Nova de Gaia's» municipality. We would also rem...
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