A Imagem da Cidade Portuguesa / Três Cidades Coloniais no Brasil: Rio de Janeiro, Ouro Preto, Colónia do Sacramento

• Autor(a) principal: João Paulo Pereira Matos da Costa
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/149842
• topic: Artes; Arts

When we visit a city, it is normal to be surprised. These surprises happen because, in our lives, we tend to make references about everything, urban references as well. Cities attempt to be an organism created to serve as, that gives a sense to our wishes and gives us, as well, a space to live our lives. Cities show what its citizens expects from them; truly perfect cities built indeed. The city will be constantly reconstructed and becoming increasingly eff ective as people try new experiences in a persistent exercise of construction and rectifi cation; the result is a city naturally transformed on the process. This experimentation started since the fi rst conscious actions of urbanization that play a big role and are an essential part of the urbanism we practice nowadays. What we call accumulated experience. The habits of conquest and colonization, inherent to human nature, are a reason, a motivation to fund new cities and, of course, for the exercise of the city draw; latter, it naturally led to the conscious of the urbanism like a discipline - the Urbanistic. A fertile moment of urban production. An Urbanism that refl ects a moment and a way of life, which will be translated into new ways of organizing spaces. It is possible to identify in these urban settlements a legacy. The necessity of an eff ective logistic, which brings to the creation of other rules; that means a way to design the city, promoting the continuity of the urban environment. The Portuguese colonial city is an evidence of what we are talking about, and an important piece of this process. All together, the development of its exercise, the necessity of affi rmation, and the necessity to materialize in a confi dant way, ended in the creation of a perceptible method. The travels which we can eventually do, and the analysis of graphic elements as well, helps us to witness this fact. So, this dissertation, analyzing the history of the Portuguese city and three examples of colonial cities in Brazil, proposes to help on the understanding of the image of the Portuguese city development, showing how important was the Portuguese colonial episode to the construction of a way to do which started in a empiric way of building, and became a disciplinary instrument, never losing the fi rst know ledges, becoming not a colonial method, but a Portuguese method.