The formation of representations on brazilian colonial cities / A formação das representações sobre a cidade colonial no Brasil

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

The critique of the colonial city was one of the most usual themes on the discussion and justification of reforms and improvement plans targeted at several Brazilian cities in the turn to the twentieth century. The critique was reiterated in a virtually homogeneous fashion all over Brazil, regardless of the specific urban characteristics in each settlement, whether it was being applied to cities that concentrated great administrative and economic importance during the colonial times, such as Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and Recife, or to those that carried little relevance in the colonys fledgling urban network, such as Natal. Beyond the issue of whether the Portuguese colonizers were "planning" settlements, this thesis discusses how representations on Brazilian colonial cities came to be. As the development of this generally negative image is tracked down, this work explores the images of Brazilian cities forged by foreigner travelers, focusing on Travels in Brazil (1816), by Henry Koster; the themes problematization by physicians and sanitary and polytechnic engineers, for whom the theme of colonial city was instrumental to demand for the urban reforms and modernization they sought over the nineteenth century; the appropriation of this theme during the process of formation of urbanism as a discipline; and in the many texts and books that delineated modern historiography on Brazilian architecture. Finally, some considerations are made on the text that could be considered the foundation for these representations: Sérgio Buarque de Holandas "O semeador e o ladrilhador", a chapter from his 1936 work, "Raízes do Brasil".

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architecture cidade colonial historiografia urbanism colonial city representações representations urbanismo arquitetura historiography

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