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Human mobility represents a privileged field for analysing epidemic propagation, as well as identification and control practises at a world scale. Migrants are at the same time agents of disease dissemination and vulnerable persons highly exposed to epidemics in transit spaces such as city ports, ships, and settlement sites in the countries of origin. This paper aims to analyse how a country with a long and strong tradition in transatlantic and European migration, such as Portugal, incorporated concerns of Public Health in the policies and management of massive migration exits from the nineteenth century until the 1950s, particularly through the directives for the control and prevention of epidemics. In this way, we will analyse the intersection of two general state policies, epidemic control and migration surveillance.

In this article a critique is laid out about the senses of some habitual concepts in the urbanism and directly related to the correspondence between urban spaces and infrastructures of transport. The authors are especially interested in the meanings and uses of such meanings as connectivity, accessibility and mobility. Opening the terminological debate and elucidating the perspective of the theoretical analysis, this contribution combines a few notes on the urban sustainable mobility and the Transit-Oriented Development.

This text makes reference to the polysemy of the concept of landscape, as well as to the use that the different disciplines make of it, and its interdependence with another terms such as environment, scene, identity, ambiance, character, etc.; all this has driven to a lack of precission in the terms or a conceptual mischief that is clearly manifested in the legislation, that seems to settle the meanings ot the concept of landscape between the values of the environment and those of the cultural heritage. Undoubtedly, as a cultural concept, the landscape has many faces but, in order to perform a proper landscape planning in the context of the spatial planning, it proves to be urgent to come to an agreement about the basic aspects that define it.