A revitalização do Mercado Central de Pelotas e sua ressignificação social

Abstract

The present dissertation aims to investigate the consequences of the revilalization of the Central Market of Pelotas (MCP), verifying its impact on old and new occupants who have experienced the change of this public space. It seeks to analyze the social resignification that occurred after the revitalization of the Market to the permission holders and goers, taking into consideration the economic, social and cultural aspects involved. There were changes in the structure of the indoor market shops and in the outdoor part with the creation of the “Edmar Fetter” square that reverberated in the commerce and in the goers of the place. Today, the Central Market is visited as a tourist, cultural and entertainment point, differently from what occurred before the revitalization. A qualitative methodology brings the application of the interviews with former and new permission holders of the MCP and with the secretary of the Economic Development and Tourism of the city. The application of the interviews is used with the current market goers, as well as the analysis of the documents and of the photography technique that show the objective conditions by which the revitalization of the Central Market is registered. As the theorethical basis, the concepts of revitalization of the Lisbon Letter (1995), Peixoto (2009) and Costa (2014), the concepts of public space of Ângelo Serpa and Cerqueira (2013) and the concepts of gentrification of David Harvey, Sharon Zukin and Neil Smith were used.