Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: DANIEL DE ALMEIDA MORATORI

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : DANIEL DE ALMEIDA MORATORI
DATE: 27/11/2023
TIME: 11:00
LOCAL: videoconferência
TITLE:

“A city condemned to suffering”: Urban Legal Mechanisms in the process of sanitary regulation and control in Juiz de Fora/MG (1887-1943)

KEY WORDS:

Hygiene; Environmental actor; Envirotech; Urban Environmental History; Urban Historical Geography.

PAGES: 290
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SUBÁREA: Fundamentos de Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SPECIALTY: História da Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SUMMARY:

The intensification of sanitary and environmental problems in Juiz de Fora/MG, at the end of the century XIX and in the first decades of the century XX, came mainly from its accelerated physical demographic expansion, heavy rainfall and floods, which encouraged pertinent discussions and mitigating actions regarding it. As the main economic center in the southeast of Minas Gerais (Zona da Mata), a confluence of factors led to the realization of the ideas of the elites, breaking with its past and enhancing its innovative character compared to other Brazilian municipalities. In a legal context for standardization, Juiz de Fora equipped itself with instruments to regulate and discipline its changing space. By being based on incorporated hygienist/sanitary precepts, the “Urban Legal Mechanisms” faced the modernization of the city and environmental obstacles. The Paraibuna River, a fundamental element in choosing the positioning of Juiz de Fora and delineating its expansion axis, became a preponderant actor and a channel for discussions, proposals and actions that put urban health on the agenda. Thus, the articulations for the institutionalization of the health issue, the urban plans and specific interventions promoted the idea of urban planning in the city. This legislative apparatus resulted in the erasure of peculiar architectural ensembles and the imposition of rigid construction rules, which marks the elitization of the central area and the beginnings of socio-spatial segregation. In view of the above, we seek to understand the role of the hygienist/sanitary movement in shaping physical-spatial standards through the analysis of the body of legal measures and specific actions to sanitize urban space and modify the natural environment between 1887 and 1943, providing contributions to the field of Urban Environmental History and Urban Historical Geography. The following were fundamental: the theoretical-methodological assumptions of “Envirotech” in the interpretation of the technicians’ actions regarding the structuring of a landscape formed by the city and the river; the identification of participating Urban/Social Agents responsible for the construction and determination of urban morphology; Historical Cartography and History of Cartography to understand the configuration of the territory and its physical ordering, in compliance with the analytical categories of Regulation and Technology. The empirical source is the documentary survey, covering various newspapers, medical bulletins, urban plans, graphic representations and legislative/normative texts. Partial data shows that in meeting the needs of modernization, changes made to the river's course to accommodate technical systems affected the urban area in the subsequent years, with a continuous increase in flooding. Furthermore, initially, the Juiz de Fora Society of Medicine and Surgery was not only the protagonist that most influenced decision-making on public hygiene, with the creation of regulations, supervision, approval of architectural projects, consultants with engineers in plans and works and others; but doctors associated with this entity also participated in the power structure in its various spheres, directing and executing municipal policies.

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 347654 - ANGELA LUCIA DE ARAUJO FERREIRA
Interno - 1149450 - RUBENILSON BRASAO TEIXEIRA
Externa ao Programa - 2567112 - ANNA RACHEL BARACHO EDUARDO JULIANELLI - UFRNExterno à Instituição - PEDRO ALBERTO NOVO LÓPEZ - UPV/EHU
Externo à Instituição - YURI SIMONINI SOUZA - UNI-RN