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This article explores the preconditions and modes of affirmation and strengthening of the role of the state in urbanism and urban intervention, taking as reference and example the case of the city of Porto, in Portugal. The sanitary crisis that follows the surge of bubonic plague observed in this city in 1899 is the motto for the development of an analysis on the relevance of the hygienist movement in the production and dissemination of a new way of envisaging the state’s intervention in the city and in the structuring of the bureaucratic field that this specific historic period testifies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article tries to broaden the research agenda on territorial stigmatisation. It reviews some theoretical arguments on the relevance of a relational sociological reading of the processes of territorial stigmatisation, and proposes a study of these processes during a period of political revolution and social instability, through discussion of the case presented by the city of Porto, Portugal, in the mid-1970s. Based on the study of institutional archives, ethnographic work in several neighbourhoods, and semi-structured interviews with social actors involved in these processes, the article describes the urban and housing conditions of inner city Porto's working-class boroughs in the first three quarters of the 20th century and discusses the forms of political and social resistance taken up by residents from the most dilapidated neighbourhoods following the revolution of April 1974. The sociological analysis of the actions that gave origin to the voice of the residents in the historic centre of the city in this period reveals significant interaction with the processes of territorial stigmatisation, via organised collective resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]