Abstract

RIBEIRO, Daniela. The Carboniferous System of Douro: from landscape to territorial planning. GOT [online]. 2017, n.12, pp.295-308. ISSN 2182-1267.  https://doi.org/10.17127/got/2017.12.013.

In 1994, the last national fuel exploitation was closed, leading to the suspension of the landscape evolution process, formerly determined by the transformation of coal into energy, from the social support structures close to the coal extraction points along the Douro Coalfield, up to the (infra)structural systems of, and in, the city of Porto. The whole system lost its significance after the dematerialization of energy resource: the element that once articulated territorial development became immaterial, and the system lost its physical support structure. Today, the patrimonial condition should be supported on the capacity to represent values and needs that establish links between the present and the past. So that, it is important to understand how the inertia that the energy system produces in the territory can be (re)understood as a prospective and renovating resource.

Keywords : Energy production; carboniferous system; heritage; cultural landscape; territorial planning.

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