Paper short abstract:

The Saragoça Treaty (1529) fixed the east limit of the previous Atlantic division. In the following decades processes of territorialization in the different spaces of the Portuguese empire were made towards a global geostrategic. In the East, at the center of these processes were the cities.

Paper long abstract:

When the Atlantic World was framed with the demarcation line at the east of the Atlantic division, the building culture tested by the portuguese through the Atlantic and African shores had also found in Asia new and solid urban environments to which it had to adapt to construct an urban network. Exception made to Macao, Cochin, Malacca, Colombo and Santhome of Mylapore were, at the time the east limit of the Atlantic division was established, urban settlements where the portuguese presence had started the urban organization and composition processes (with different expression and pace). After the Saragoça Treaty, the processes of territorialization tried in the following decades (1530-1550) in the different spaces of Portuguese empire, led to a restructuring of the urban network. While on the west side of the Atlantic World framework the colonization of Brazil was being experienced, on the east side, the investment was made in settlements which had better chance for adding territorial dimension. Cochin, Malacca, Colombo (already abandoned) and Santhome of Mylapore were not the case, and experienced a series of urban and territorial strategies, which, at the long time, influenced the composition of the urban forms and territorial organization. This presentation will focus in these experiences through the urban morphology analysis and land procedures.