Banca de DEFESA: LARRY ANDELMO SILVA DE ANDRADE

Urban documents from Fortaleza from 1932 to 1963: conceptions, representations and accomplishments

Modernism and modernization; circulation of ideas; City of Fortaleza; Plans and
Codes; Urban structure; Contemporary Fortaleza.

The main purpose of this thesis is to verify, analyze and comprehend the role of
urbanistic legal provisions of Fortaleza between the years 1932 and 1963, as one of the ways
for introducing the ideas of modernizing the city, according to the urbanism that was spread in
other Brazilian capitals during the period in question, and that remained in the contemporary
city, observing the urban layout, the street, the block, the land lot and the architecture. For this
purpose, the work is divided in three moments : concepts – referring to political, economic
and social events and the circulation of urbanistic ideas that were in vogue; representations –
corresponding to the measures adopted by the municipality that were published in the
urbanistic documents of the city between 1932 and 1963; and realizations – addressing the
realizations or urbans interventions made over time, using as reference the urbanistic
documents, whose configuration remains or still resonates to present days in the city. The
work presents the urban context of Fortaleza between the beginning of the Old Republic
(1889) and the year prior to the Military Dictatorship (1964), seeking to relate the concepts of
modernization adopted in this period with the urbanistic documents (plans and codes)
produced by the municipal public power of Fortaleza. This study verified the importance of
plans of improvements and urban codes as a way for consolidating the view of the modernist
city in the capital of Ceará and which remained in the contemporary city, even if it is possible
to affirm that the documents were not put into practice as intended.