Mapping the Pouso Frio: construction dynamics of a neighborhood in the city of Toledo/PR

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Maria Cristina de Castro
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos de História (Belo Horizonte. Online)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/cadernoshistoria/article/view/P.2237-8871.2017v18n28p228
• topic: Home; Occupation; Workers; Pouso Frio.; Moradia; Ocupação; Trabalhadores; Pouso Frio.

This article describes and discusses the historical process of formation of a neighborhood – Pouso Frio – in the city of Toledo, west of Paraná, from the 1940s Initially an occupation area, this space was built by different subjects in their mostly from the north of Paraná, São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Paraguay, hidden in the Official History prepared for the city. In the first decades they lived in the neighborhood faced the ever-present fear of losing their meager investments in land without bookkeeping. Still they lived with the absence of electricity, tap water, public transport and sewage system, for example. The dialogue established with residents of Pouso Frio allowed outlining a set of trajectories and expectations that came and joined them in the fight for better living conditions and access to the city.