Entrepreneurial Iniciatives ; Foreign Investmet and Marketing in the implementation of gas services in the portugueses cities during the second half of the ninetteth century

Abstract

In the nineteenth century, urban growth, the development of medicine and the hygienist ideas genereted a great concern about spacial organisation of cities and the creation of urban infrastructures. The latter constituted a field of technical innovation which, based on the principal European cities , extended to others though agents such as engineers or businessmen(...)