Protection of the railroad landscape: memory and identity of the bairro São Bernardo Station (current Santo André, SP) / Proteção da paisagem ferroviária: memória e identidade do bairro Estação São Bernardo (atual Santo André, SP)

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

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Since the decade of 1980, it has been recurrent the adoption of practices of valuation and recuperation of cultural patrimony as a means of urban spaces renewal aiming at urban centers revitalization, by means of reinsertion of buildings and historical clusters at city’s daily life with new kinds of using, which adopts a development paradigm that is contradictory to urban renewal practices. Also in the municipality of Santo André, the public power has searched for alternatives of memory and cultural patrimony valuation early in the decade of 1990, as part of a process that had been started off ten years ago with public debates about the patrimony safeguard, widely registered by the local press. However, although the social and economical development guidelines of the local administration highlight the importance of the rescue of memory as a local identity’s affirmation, the reminiscent urban elements from São Bernardo´s former ‘Bairro da Estação’ have not been receiving adequate attention by urban development policies for the unfamiliarity with the value of innumerable buildings and public lots spread in the city, or even for the lack of preservation legal tools. This thesis proposes, as work hypothesis, to state that there is permanence of reminiscents of the station-town establishing memory, which has been formed around the train station of Santo André and are worthy of identification, valuation and protection, as it has been stated by documents and resolutions from international congresses and seminars on cultural patrimony protection. From the identification of urban elements that are identified with the railway scape, this work proposes a reflection on the practices of valuation and preservation of the urban environment patrimony experienced in the municipality of Santo André, and proposes alternatives to the safeguard of the local cultural patrimony.

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local identity public politics heritage cultural política pública identidade urbana patrimônio cultural safeguard salvaguarda

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