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> Much of Lisbon was built under Salazar in the 1960s, it doesn't look half bad and 50 years later it's holding up extremely well. Lisbon has construction span
by DoingIsLearning 6y ago
> Much of Lisbon was built under Salazar in the 1960s, it doesn't look half bad and 50 years later it's holding up extremely well.
Lisbon has construction spanning from Roman times all the way to today. Most of the downtown was rebuilt after an earthquake in the 18th century.
Besides public buildings, there were a few residencial neighbourhoods and social housing built by Salazar's regime, implying that 'much of Lisbon' is his legacy is factually wrong.
Moreover the "Estado Novo" architectural style promoted by the fascist regime was meant to bring back themes from traditional portuguese construction, with a lot of masonry embellishments. This is the opposite of the monotone pragmatism of the soviet blocks.
- HarryHirsch 6y agoLisbon almost doubled between 1950 and 1975. The neighbourhoods from the Zoo going east are all from that era, it's a lot of the city.
- DoingIsLearning 6y agoSure the both Lisbon and Porto grew and Salazar enforced a de facto architectural style, but the regime only built public buildings and some social housing. Perhaps this is an English-as-a-foreign-language thing but to me "under Salazar" implies that the regime ordered, and payed for, most of the construction in that era which is not true.
- HarryHirsch 6y agoNot a native speaker either, but to me "under Salazar" would mean during his era and expressing the era's spirit. As you say, the city planning and architecture certainly bears the stamp of the Estado Novo, even though the government didn't pay for most of it.