Industrialização e Urbanização em Portugal: que relações? O caso do Anteplano de Urbanização da Vila do Barreiro de 1957

The main purpose of this paper is to focus discussion around the concept of “enterprise” as a reality which, together with other production units located in urban areas, could generate economies of agglomeration. These in turn play a role of enormous importance to local and regional level. By this route was thought to introduce a multidisciplinary approach in the debate about territory.