Full text
| |
| Author(s): |
Luciana Massami Inoue
Total Authors: 1
|
| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/SBI) |
| Defense date: | 2017-02-21 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria Lucia Caira Gitahy;
Cristina de Campos;
Leonardo Barci Castriota;
Telma de Barros Correia;
Beatriz Mugayar Kuhl
|
| Advisor: | Maria Lucia Caira Gitahy |
| Abstract | |
The aim of this research was to study the social history of the railway worker villages of the \"Companhia Paulista\" and to contribute to the discussion about their preservation. Among many railway companies spread in the São Paulo state, the \"Companhia Paulista\" was chosen because it was the first company to be founded with national capital and due to its geographical, political, economic and social influence. Among its villages, only six of them were chosen as cases of study - \"Itirapina\", \"Brotas\", \"Dois Córregos\", \"Jaú\", \"São Carlos\" e \"Rincão\" - villages not yet analysed, which showed a considerable number of houses and were located geographically close to each other, \"in the heart of\" São Paulo state. The time frame of the research was given by the company life time itself, with start in 1868 and end in 1961 as a private enterprise. The methods employed were the investigation of primary sources - especially the \"Companhia Paulista\" annual reports - and secondary sources, which were divided into two parts that we sought to combine: one refers to railway worker villages, the \"Companhia\" and its workers, and the other one refers to the preservation issues. The field visits to the aforementioned cities were important for the verification of their conservation status, their urban morphology as well as for the analysis of the applicability of the proposals to their preservation. The technical visits made were similarly important to analyse and compare the solution given to the industrial railway and urban heritage in different countries. Taken into an isolated view, the railway villages seem insignificant, however, as we study the accompanying social history of the \"Companhia Paulista\" and mainly of its workers, the villages acquire a whole new meaning. Thus in this way, the value of the railway worker villages is better understood with the analysis of broader historical processes. One of the possible ways found to the \"re-meaning\" is supported by the cultural landscape concept as well as the concept of conservation areas or integrated conservation. The concepts complement one another and both help in the heritage management. From the concept of conservation areas, the morphotypological analysis emerges. Instead of a stylistic analysis of the railway worker villages, we preferred the present type of analysis, more related to the \"urban fabric\" and connected to the investigation of the social history of these places, which we believe sustain and give meaning to the preservation policies, in the search of the \"character of the place\", while at the same time trying to connect the past to the contemporary dimension, which should have the preservation policies. We hope that with this research we have accomplished the following purposes: once again give value to the railway worker villages and the associated world of labour inside history and inside the preservation policies. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/23935-5 - Paulista Railway Company an investigation about the history and preservation of railway workers housing |
| Grantee: | Luciana Massami Inoue |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |