Taming the waters: salubriousiness and space occupation in São Paulo city, 1975-1930 / Domando as aguas : salubridade e ocupação do espaço na cidade de São Paulo, 1875-1930

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

The aim of this work is to know the process of the urban space occupation in São Paulo city by means of understanding the services and works intended for the establishment of the salubriousness in the urban soil, taking the waters that cross it as the guiding element. If at a first moment the waters were essential to the occupation of the area that would become the city of São Paulo, with the population densification - specially from the third quarter of the XIX century, due to the richness that came from the formation of the coffee economic complex in São Paulo - gradually they started to obstruct the physical expansion of the state capital and were taken as an insalubrities disseminator, mainly when linked to the fact of getting more and more residual discharges (domestic and industrial) as a result of the urbanization. In this scene questions linked to problems of urban cleaning, rivers adjustment and canalization, dwelling, lack of services in water and drain, real estate valorization and speculation, among others, converge, for they allow to visualize the modernizing and civilizating pretensions put into practice for the elite in town - that included the combat to dirt, physical and moral - aggregated to private real estate interests which consolidated in the urbe, specially at the end of the 1920 decade and that, inconsistently, brought to the city a big range of problems that the urban densification established.

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modernização urbanização especulação obras publicas agua

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