Memory and urban identity in Santos: uses and preservation of architectural typologies of Conselheiro Nébias Avenue / Memória e identidade urbana em Santos: usos e preservação de tipologias arquitetônicas da avenida Conselheiro Nébias

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2008

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The following research intends to analyze the contemporary conditions for preserving areas with historical and cultural significance, arguing the concepts of identity and memory, within the current trends of urban renewal by the performance of the market or the state. A segment of the Conselheiro Nébias Avenue, in Santos, whose building blocks have some remnants of the passage of the nineteenth century for the twentieth, period in which Santos was signed as bigger port of Brazilian exports, is in imminent threat and is an illustrative case study of this problem. This axle, which effectively led the development of the city, it reached great prestige for becoming place of residence of the comercial, political and professional elite linked to the coffee economy who tried to run away from the chaos that was taking over the city. In the first decades of the twentieth century, this part of the avenue suffered urban devaluation after that rich people migrated to the edge, being occupied by a low-income population, which were workers of the port, besides former slaves and immigrants. The provisions of the 1998 Managing Plan seem to lead the verticalization of the área, which can result not only in the expulsion of its current population, under a gentrification process, but also can erase traces able to revive the public memory on a so important region to History of Santos, Sao Paulo and Brazil. Thus, the work ahead defends its preservation before the cultural and historical value materialized in their buildings while at the same time warning us about the threats of current strategies of urban management.

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urban identity planejamento estratégico memória pública identidade urbana public memory strategical planning

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