Controle e expansão: códigos e plantas - Fortaleza 1813 – 1933.

Abstract

Ceará had delayed colonization compared to other states in northeastern Brazil. Even so, Fortaleza is now the fifth most populous city in Brazil. The cearense Capital faced a major population flow mainly in the second half of the nineteenth century, due to the changes brought by cotton production and droughts in the state that led to the migration of country people to Fortaleza. The internal business requirements and population growth have made the city go through a series of urban transformations that followed, at first, the premises of town planning conceptions of the metropolis from an orthogonal layout and, later, urban ideas that emerged in Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth century in response to the problems generated by the Industrial Revolution. This work aims to study the urban morphology of the city of Fortaleza promoted by the government through plans, plants and posture codes between 1813 and 1933 and how these measures contributed to rationalize and order the urban growth. The work plan was developed through bibliographic and documentary research in order to promote an analysis of the relationship between the first urban projects and Fortaleza posture codes with urban concepts rooted in worldviews of the time. It is considered that period as the History of modern urbanism in Fortaleza, as from 1932 (code), and 1933 (plan), you begin to realize the city features of the modern movement in the urban planning field.