ABSTRACT
What kind of colonial city was produced by the First Portuguese Republic? Research into the Republic and colonialism is only now beginning to look at the topic of the city and the production of public space. For a considerable period the perceived knowledge was that the troubled times between 1910 – the end of the monarchy – and 1926 – the beginning of the military dictatorship – did not allow for the development of an urban and architectural culture that reflected the values of the so-called ‘republican ethics’. While in mainland Portugal one could observe the persistence of the kind of urban production that developed during the constitutional monarchy, namely in the design of the public space and in the infrastructures of the main metropolitan cities, in the African territories there was urgency in taking action that manifested itself in the expansion and beautification of the existing cities and in the planning and foundation of new cities. Many of these plans also reflected the ideological values that the republicans cherished with regard to Africa.
