M. Luísa Sousa

• PhD
• PostDoc Position at Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia

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Using the Actor Network Theory’s concept of “script”, this article is at the crossroads of two scholarly traditions, studying the evolution of urban infrastructures and studying urban planning. It analyzes the strategic role played by the street to overcome nineteenth-century urban problems, being simultaneously its epicenter, and also the key to t...

The history of two roads projected and built for cars during the first phase of the Estado Novo dictatorship in Portugal (1933–1945) is reconstructed in the context of similar developments in interwar Europe, showing the particularities of a peripheral European country. It shows the importance of automobile infrastructure to this dictatorial regime...

The forty-second annual meeting of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) took place at Tel Aviv University from 16 to 20 August 2015. The conference was held together with the fourth meeting on the History of Electrical Technology (HISTELCON), organized by members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers...

This dissertation focuses on the institutionalization of the sociotechnical system, underlying automobility, in Portugal, from 1920 to 1950. By taking into consideration that the country was technologically peripheral and originally no automobiles were locally manufactured, this work developed along two complementary aspects: the regulation of auto...

During the revolutionary period of 1974-76, there was vigorous debate in Portugal regarding the role of automobiles in the desired new society. The dispute was reinforced by the first international oil crisis. Strong ideological rhetoric was deployed either to defend the potentially liberating role of the automobile or to condemn its ‘bourgeois’ un...

The automobile industry in Portugal has its foundation in 1961, with the Assembly Law, which imposed limitations upon the importation of vehicles and created a very specific geometry of interests very much influenced by commercial interests.In order to comply with this law, manufacturers were forced either to create local affiliated companies or to...

This article demonstrates how public control over the street was at the origin of modern urban planning in Lisbon. The increased pressure over the street in the nineteenth-century city demanded increased public intervention, which was at the roots of urban planning as practice and as a body of theory. The strategic character assumed by urban planni...