Lisbon - Arco do Cego

The Bairro Social do Arco do Cego is one of the first planned residential areas of Lisbon. After the founding of the republic work began on establishing housing settlements in what were then still the suburbs of the city. These were supposed to develop standardized living areas within the framework of a social house building program. A decree of April 5, 1918 sought a remedy to the housing difficulties of the poor and the gradual solution of the problems acknowledged in the old quarters by construction new living areas for the working classes. Under the leadership of the architects Edmundo Tavares and Frederico Machado small semi detached houses fronted by little gardens began to be built in the Arco do Cego quarter in 1919. Political