Aracaju: the construction of the city image / Aracaju: a construção da imagem da cidade

AUTOR(ES)

Dora Neuza Leal Diniz

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

Aracaju: The Construction of the City Image discusses, in the context of urban perception, how the image of the city was formed through time, in the sense of being total or in part randomly built or instead formed as a consequence of a driven intent to select mainly positive views of the city, by opinion makers and public agents, private or technical. This idea is developed here starting from the clear association between postcards printed in the past and today and the Aracaju city currently perceived by its inhabitants, evaluated by questionnaires applied. Each one reveals an individual perception of the city, but all provide very homogeneous results in respect to its main characteristics. In an historical perspective, it was tried to recover the temporal trends in viewing the city for decades, by the collection of postcards available since early 20th-century and other sources, like written history, poetry, personal memories, and so on. The highlighted urban marks were also described, both resulting from physical construction of the city, as well as from those established between the city and its environment. Thus, this analysis provides an attempt to show how Aracaju was forged and presents itself as a beautiful State capital, calm and beloved by all, with a high standard in terms of life quality, an example of city organization...In short, the State capital with highest life quality in Brazil! In a certain way, at the same time this supports the lack of a more critical view of the city by its own population, in respect to urban questions and its way of life, an expected issue when dealing with perceived image, clearly false and expressing the strong Midia manipulation in the modern society.

ASSUNTO(S)

aracaju imagem urbana urban image urban memory percepção urbana postcards memória urbana urban evolution aracaju cartões-postais evolução urbana urban perception

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