{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"institution":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/03mb6wj31","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"},{"id":"https:\/\/www.isni.org\/000000041937028X","id-type":"ISNI","asserted-by":"publisher"},{"id":"https:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/entity\/Q1640731","id-type":"wikidata","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya","acronym":["UPC"]}],"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,11]],"date-time":"2026-02-11T03:45:19Z","timestamp":1770781519044,"version":"3.50.0"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":[],"abstract":"<jats:p>El Valle del Ave es una regi\u00f3n del NW de la ciudad de Oporto que ha sido objeto de una considerable expansi\u00f3n de la urbanizaci\u00f3n en las \u00faltimas d\u00e9cadas del siglo XX. Como en tantas otras \u00e1reas urbanas contempor\u00e1neas que se desarrollaron entre las ciudades tradicionales, aquel crecimiento fue el resultado de una (des)organizaci\u00f3n casi ca\u00f3tica, visualmente marcada por la complicada ininteligibilidad de las l\u00f3gicas de implantaci\u00f3n de los edificios y actividades. Debido a esa situaci\u00f3n paradigm\u00e1tica, el Valle del Ave constituye el tema de estudio que soporta la reflexi\u00f3n sobre las \u00e1reas que as\u00ed se describen, sobre como introducir claridad en la (des)organizaci\u00f3n territorial a trav\u00e9s del componente morfol\u00f3gico y cu\u00e1les son los elementos que a ese respecto y en m\u00faltiples escalas se constituyen como los encargados de ordenar y estructurar, en diferentes niveles de comprensi\u00f3n del concepto. Pero el Ave, como cualquier otra \u00e1rea-paradigma, s\u00f3lo lo es hasta cierto punto, conciliando con la generalidad aspectos particulares que lo distinguen y denotan las variantes del discurso general.\r\nAsumiendo la condicion del territorio como palimpsesto, comenzamos identificando la l\u00f3gica (m\u00faltiple) del Ave, buscando a trav\u00e9s de su comprensi\u00f3n el sentido (subyacente y escondido) de lo que vemos y que, a primera vista, parece no existir, de ese recorrido emergiendo la \u201cterritorializaci\u00f3n\u201d de din\u00e1micas transversales. Resultado de una dispersi\u00f3n de la urbanizaci\u00f3n antigua en el tiempo, previa al desarrollo industrial pero que consolida en la relaci\u00f3n intr\u00ednseca entre agricultura\/industria y cultura un renovado y particular fundamento, el Ave encuentra mucho del sentido fundador y explicativo del proceso en ese pasado; no obstante, es esencialmente en un elemento de car\u00e1cter antr\u00f3pico \u2013 la red viaria \u2013 donde su imagen se justifica. Cuestion\u00e1ndola como uno de los tres elementos b\u00e1sicos de construcci\u00f3n del paisaje, junto con el agua y la topografia, la fuerza del \u201ccamino\u201d sobresale, privilegi\u00e1ndolo como elemento espec\u00edfico y explicativo del (des)orden del paisaje del Ave..\r\nRed densa, poco jerarquizada, estrecha y sinuosa, mayoritariamente constituida por caminos a la que se unen algunas carreteras, su configuraci\u00f3n dominante es muy dependiente de las parcelas agr\u00edcolas, irregulares en la forma y peque\u00f1as en la dimensi\u00f3n: primero, el \u201ccamino\u201d constituye la \u201cl\u00ednea\u201d que las limita y atraviesa; despu\u00e9s, con el uso que le da el contexto industrial del siglo XIX prolongado hasta mediados del siglo XX, se convierte en \u201cespacio p\u00fablico\u201d; m\u00e1s recientemente, su sentido esencial se restringe al \u201cacceso\u201d. Soporte de la edificaci\u00f3n y de las actividades, la red viaria es, por lo tanto, reflejo de las diferentes din\u00e1micas que afectan al territorio y, por eso, ha sido elegida como hilo conductor de la investigaci\u00f3n, siendo su capacidad estructuradora evaluada a trav\u00e9s del desarrollo de tres funciones: conexi\u00f3n\/irrigaci\u00f3n, urbanizaci\u00f3n y formalizaci\u00f3n y de su concreci\u00f3n en \u201cinstrumentos de dise\u00f1o\u201d.\r\nA trav\u00e9s de la comprensi\u00f3n general de los modelos de urbanizaci\u00f3n \u2013 expresi\u00f3n de identidad sedimentada en el espacio \u2013 y, concretamente, de la red viaria como agente de esa concreci\u00f3n espacial \u2013 se crea el marco que permite cuestionarla como instrumento que ordena el paisaje micro y macro. La Red Viaria de Nivel Intermedio (RVNI) forma parte de ese ejercicio, una respuesta a un nivel de jerarqu\u00eda medio\/macro ausente en el Ave y del que el Sistema Urbano carece, cuyo sentido depende de la articulaci\u00f3n con otros elementos morfol\u00f3gicos territoriales. Una \u201cv\u00eda-malla\u201d constituye la propuesta conceptual para una peque\u00f1a parte de la RVNI, donde el papel estructurador se cumple en diferentes escalas y significados. En cualquier caso, los principios utilizados para abordar este tema, constituyen una prueba extrapolable para otras realidades urbanas que, como en el Ave, necesitan reflexi\u00f3n e instrumentos de intervenci\u00f3n espec\u00edficos, con su consiguiente adaptaci\u00f3n en las condiciones de cada situaci\u00f3n territorial.<\/jats:p>\n                <jats:p>Ave\u2019s valley is a region located NW to Oporto city that withstood a considerable expansion of its urbanisation over the last decades of the 20th century. As in so many other contemporary urban areas developed in-between the traditional cities, the outcome of that growth is an almost chaotic (dis)organisation, visually marked by the difficult intelligibility of the buildings and activities\u2019 settlement logic. Due to this paradigmatic situation Ave\u2019s valley is set as the case study, supporting a reflexion about the areas that can be thus described, the ways to introduce clarity in territorial (dis)organization using a morphologic dimension and about the elements which, pertaining to that dimension and considered in multiple scales, set themselves up as elements of order and structure, in its multiple conceptual layers. Nevertheless Ave, as any other paradigm-area, is only so up to a certain degree, reconciling common features of the paradigm with individual ones that distinguish it and show a particular variant of the general discourse.\r\nAssuming this territory as a palimpsest, Ave\u2019s (multiple) logic is primarily identified, by understanding it through seeking the (subjacent and hidden) sense of what is seen and, and, at a first glance, seems not to exist. From that research emerges the \u00abterritorialisation\u00bb of dynamics transversal to several other places. Resulting from an ancient dispersion of urbanisation, prior to industrialisation, but sustaining a renewed and individual statement in the intrinsic relation between agriculture\/industry and culture, Ave finds much of the process\u2019s basic and explaining sense in that past; however, its image is essentially justified in an element of antropic nature \u2013 the road network. Questioning it as one of the three basic elements of landscape construction, side-by-side with the water and topography, the strength of the \u00abpathway\u00bb nevertheless overcomes them as both explaining element of the landscape (dis)order and characteristic of its specificity.\r\nDense, with little hierarchy, narrow and winding, primarily made out of pathways to which some roads join, the dominant configuration of the road network is highly dependent on agricultural parcels, irregular in shape and small in size: first, the \u00abpathway\u00bb is the \u00abline\u00bb that confines and crosses them; afterwards, with the use given by the industrial context of the 19th century extended till the middle of the 20th century, it converts into \u00abpublic space\u00bb; recently its essential meaning was restricted to \u00abaccess\u00bb. The support of building and activities, the road network mirrors the various territorial dynamics and was, thus, selected as the main binding thread of this research; its structuring ability was evaluated by the fulfilment of three functions: connection\/irrigation, urbanisation and shaping, and also the materialization of its use as a \u201cdesign tool\u201d.\r\nThrough an understanding of the urbanisation models \u2013 expression of an identity deeply rooted in space \u2013 and, specifically, of the road network as agent of that spatial realisation, the framework that allows inquiring it as ordering instrument of the macro and micro landscape is built. The Road Network of an Intermediate Level (RNIL) is part of that exercise, a response to a medium\/macro level of hierarchy which is absent in Ave and is a defining feature of the Urban System, whose sense depends on the articulation with other morphological territorial elements. A \u00abweave-road\u00bb constitutes a conceptual proposal to a small part of the RNIL, where that role is applied on several territorial scales and meanings. In the end, it\u2019s the approaching principles that remain as an experiment that could be transferred to other urban realities that, as Ave, need specific intervention rationale and tools, though still to be validated in each particular territorial situation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.5821\/dissertation-2117-94408","type":"dissertation","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,10,3]],"date-time":"2023-10-03T01:25:30Z","timestamp":1696296330000},"approved":{"date-parts":[[2011,1,17]]},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Red viaria y territorio en el \"Vale do Ave\": la red viaria de nivel intermedio como estructura del paisaje urbano en el NW portugu\u00e9s"],"prefix":"10.5821","author":[{"sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Sara Adelaide","family":"Sucena Gomes Garc\u00eda","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]}],"member":"3865","container-title":[],"original-title":[],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,8]],"date-time":"2026-02-08T06:29:55Z","timestamp":1770532195000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2117\/94408"}},"subtitle":[],"editor":[{"given":"Francisco Javier","family":"Moncl\u00fas Fraga","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Manuel","family":"Fern\u00e1ndez de S\u00e1","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Joaqu\u00edn","family":"Sabat\u00e9 Bel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[null]]},"references-count":0,"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5821\/dissertation-2117-94408","relation":{},"subject":[]}}