ECLIPSED RELATIONS IN THE URBANIZATION OF SÃO PAULO CITY: JOAQUIM EUGENIO DE LIMA AND HIS SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC INVESTMENTS

• Grant number: 22/08519-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: January 01, 2023
• End date: June 01, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Fundamentals of Architecture and Urbanism
• Principal Investigator: Fernando Atique
• Grantee: Lucas Martinez Knabben
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 23/16447-6 - Transnational Knowledge in São Paulo's Urbanization: an investigation into the formation and professional articulations of Joaquim Eugênio de Lima, Jules Martin and Paul Villon in France., BE.EP.MS

Abstract

The city of São Paulo, at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, experienced a process of expansion and modernization. These transformations of the urban territory of São Paulo were based on the actions of a business community, which, by investing economic and social capital, became promoters of an unequivocal transformation of the capital. Joaquim Eugênio de Lima (JEL) is part of this business promoters of the urban space of the city of São Paulo in that period, mainly because of his development on Avenida Paulista. However, its performance and urban enterprises go beyond what was carried out on the old Estrada da Real Grandeza, the original name of Avenida Paulista: it is related to the formation of different regions of the city, in a very strategic articulation with other urban promoters. Therefore, this research project intends to study the networks, the business webs and the actions of JEL in the assembly of the urban mosaic of São Paulo. The master's research does not intend to be a laudatory investigation that emphasizes the role of JEL in the urbanization of São Paulo, but, rather, a possibility to analyze, through the historical method, the project of commodification of São Paulo's urban land through the action of this social actor. Something that demands attention about JEL is based on the fact that although his name has not disappeared from the urban imagination, nor from the materiality of the city - since one of the roads that crosses its most famous development was named after him - little is known , in the historiography of São Paulo, about him. There seems to be, according to the sources found for the writing of this research project, that JEL acted intentionally, in order to reduce the understanding of the tensions and controversies in which he was involved, eclipsing himself, in this way.