Science, Technology and Medicine in the Making of Lisbon (1840–1940)

Ana Simões, Ph.D. (1993), University of Maryland at College Park, USA, is Full Professor of History of Science at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, and Vice-President of the ESHS (2020-22). Recent publications include Gardens and Human Agency in the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2019). Maria Paula Diogo, Ph.D. (1994), NOVA University, Portugal. She is Full Professor of History of Technology at NOVA School of Science and Technology. She is Leonardo da Vinci Medal (SHOT, 2020). Recent publications include Inventing a European Nation. Engineers for Portugal, from Baroque to Fascism (Morgan and Claypool, 2021).

"What makes this book distinctive is not only the breadth of its case studies but its programmatic ambition. It does not simply present overlooked sites; it proposes ways of studying them. By developing methods to analyse pavements, tree lines or animal inter actions as objects of urban science, the volume expands the scope of what counts as knowledge making and of who counts as a knowledge actor. It thus provides conceptual tools for approaching cities that lack famous academies or celebrated intellectuals, repositioning ‘ordinary’ urban spaces as central to the history of STEM. Enhanced by rich visual material and complemented by a digital mapping tool situating Lisbon’s STEM sites across time, the volume integrates local detail with broader historiographical innovation. [...] it establishes a methodological programme that could guide future studies of urban science. The result is a model for writing the history of science beyond exceptional cities, grounded in the infrastructures and everyday practices that made Lisbon and many other capitals techno-scientific organisms in their own right." — Stoeger Alexander, in: The British Journal for the History of Science (2026), pp. 1–5. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087425101593]

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionAna Simões and Maria Paula DiogoPart 1. The Fabric of the CityIntroduction to Part 1Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Simões1. Paving the City and Urban Evolution: Science, Technology and Craftsmanship Under Our FeetLídia Fernandes 2. Trees, Nurseries, Tree-lined Streets and the Making of Modern Lisbon (1840-1886)Ana Duarte Rodrigues3. Working-class Neighborhoods in Lisbon: Republican Hygienist policies, and the Circulation of Workers and CapitalMaria Paula Diogo and Ana Simões4. Crossing Urban and Transport Expertise to Pave Lisbon’s Future Urban Sprawl (1930s-1940s)M. Luísa SousaPart 2. Port City and Imperial MetropolisIntroduction to Part 2Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Simões5. Hybrid Features at Lisbon’s New Lazaretto (1860-1908)José Carlos Avelãs Nunes6. The Customs Laboratory of Lisbon from the 1880s to the 1930s: Chemistry, Trade and Scientific SpacesIgnacio Suay-Matallana7. Lisbon After Quarantines: Urban Protection Against International DiseasesCelia Miralles-Buil8. The Colonial Garden and the Colonial Agricultural Museum: Education, Research and “Tropical Illusion” in the Imperial MetropolisCláudia Castelo9. Urbanising the History of “Discoveries:” The 1940 Portuguese World Exhibition and the Making of a New Imperial CapitalAntonio Sanchez and Carlos GodinhoPart 3. The Daily Life in the CityIntroduction to Part 3Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Simões10. A Liberal Garden: The Estrela Garden and the Meaning of Being PublicAna Duarte Rodrigues and Ana Simões11. Allies or Enemies? Dogs in the Streets of Lisbon in the Second Half of the Nineteenth-CenturyInês Gomes12. Intellectuals and the City: Private Matters in the Public SpaceDaniel Gamito-Marques13. Working Class Universities: Itinerant Spaces for Science, Technology and Medicine in Republican LisbonAna Simões and Maria Paula Diogo 14. A Fascist Coney Island? Salazar's Dictatorship, Popular Culture and Technological Fun (1933-1943)Jaume Valentines-Alvarez and Jaume Sastre-Juan Supplement. Historical Urban Cartography of LisbonJoão MachadoBibliographical ReferencesIndex