Resume: The project aimed to provide a graphic and descriptive inventory of the urban element "square" in the Portuguese context.
This project, of encyclopaedic nature, imposed a collection, graphic rendering and illustration working of the main examples of Portuguese squares, considering subject quality criteria, typological representativeness, evolution status, size, use and land cover. From a universe that included all municipalities of mainland Portugal and the Azores, we proceeded to a selection of 175 squares.
The approach focused, objectively, on public spaces of exception that, in a general way, are classified as squares and still consider very different situations as their own terminology denounces, such as "Largo", "Terreiro" "campo", "Rossio", excluding the spaces that typologically are considered channel spaces, as the streets.
The results of this research have resulted in two works, published respectively in 2007, in three volumes, covering the mainland, under the title: "The Square in Portugal, Public Space Inventory. Mainland "and in 2005 the volume corresponding to the study of the case of the Azores.
Sample: Form the universe of represented cases we selected as an example the squares of three cities: Funchal, Lisbon and Porto.
