Abstract.This study considers the relationship between the approach to urban planning in Portugal up to the eighteenth century, and the effective process of urbanisation, from both a theoretical and practical perspective. Portuguese urban layout does not develop as a set of random shapes but rather arises from structured thinking by “urban makers” who are firmly grounded in the subject of geometry. Being able to measure the universe and codify it in drawings was one of the major scientific accomplishments of the age of Portuguese discoveries in the sixteenth century and the acquisition of such knowledge demanded a unique ability for abstraction which could not have simply emerged out of nothing. Portugal’s investment in the training of skilled professionals is made evident in treatises, manuals, dissertations, and cartography and iconography works. The interpretation of the ideas of Order and Space in urban design evolved through history in parallel with the evolution of philosophical and scientific thought. In fact, urban space is associated the search of the laws of the nature and the intelligibility of the cosmos.

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几何，世界的尺度

摘要.本研究从理论和实践的角度考虑了葡萄牙直至 18 世纪的城市规划方法与城市化的有效过程之间的关系。葡萄牙的城市布局不是作为一组随机的形状发展而来的，而是源于“城市制造者”的结构化思维，他们牢牢扎根于几何主题。能够测量宇宙并将其编入图纸是 16 世纪葡萄牙发现时代的主要科学成就之一，获得此类知识需要独特的抽象能力，而这种抽象能力不可能是凭空出现的。葡萄牙对技术专业人员培训的投资体现在论文、手册、论文以及制图和图像学作品中。城市设计中对秩序和空间理念的诠释随着哲学和科学思想的演变而随着历史的发展而演变。事实上，城市空间与自然规律的探索和宇宙的可理解性有关。