Porto City: Renaissance, Renewal & Reinvention. Pedro Baganha, architect, urbanist, City Councillor

00:00:00 - Introduction by Dr Husam Al Waer.
00:01:41 - Introduction by Pedro Baganha. The politics and administration.
00:05:23 - An introduction to Porto.
00:14:20 - Renewal, regeneration and rehabilitation.
00:41:21 - Infilling, density, cohesion and sustainability.
00:51:47 - Culture as an urban agenda. The immaterial as a tool.
00:58:45 - Discussion.
Dr Husam Al Waer is a Reader in Sustainable Urban Design in the School of Social Sciences (Architecture + Urban Planning), University of Dundee.
Pedro Baganha, Porto City Councillor for Urbanism, Public Space and Patrimony
Pedro Baganha graduated in architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto in 1996, obtained the master’s degree from the same school in 2011, where he attended the Doctoral Program in Architecture in 2013. He worked as an architect between 1996 and 2013, coordinating multidisciplinary project teams in design, development and comprehensive management of urban housing, commercial and industrial projects. In addition to the extensive private commissions, he was part of the Metro do Porto project, having coordinated the project of Vila Nova de Gaia’s line between 1999 and 2009. He was a teacher of Architecture and Landscaping at a private school in the city of Coimbra between 2011 and 2013. He was Deputy City Councillor of Urbanism in Porto between 2013 and 2016. He was executive director of GO Porto, the municipal Construction and Management Company until 2017. He is currently the City Councillor for Urbanism, Public Space and Patrimony, and the chairman of Porto Vivo SRU, the Municipal Urban Renewal Company of Porto.
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