Railroad, Work and Housing - towns Workers in Campinas (1883-1919)

Author(s)

Bárbara Gonçalves Guazzelli

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Carlos.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD)
• Defense date: 2014-02-17

Examining board members

Telma de Barros Correia; Jane Victal Ferreira; Joubert José Lancha

• Advisor: Telma de Barros Correia

Abstract

Social habitations has faced profound changes with industrialization during the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The dissemination of new concepts such as comfort and functionality, as well as standards of morality, coupled with the adoption of new technologies and concerns about health issues, led to the transformation of old patterns urban and architectural. Consequently, new types and models of habitations were developed and built for workers of industrial clusters and rail housing. In this overview of the development of new ways of thinking about the city and housing which lies this proposed study workers\' villages. This dissertation chooses as speci¬c clipping deploying workers in Campinas industrial towns of the late nineteenth century until the ¬rst half of the twentieth century, identifying the time when companies and individuals have invested in this type of equipment. The object of study consists in analyze the workers\' house Manoel Dias, Manuel Freire, Venda Grande and Ponte Preta, considering the history and spatial conformation in terms of urban integration at the time of construction. This research intends to contribute for the social habitation knowledge of the history in Brazil, through the action\'s analysis in Campinas. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 11/03742-2 - Workers housing at Campinas: architecture and urbain integration
• Grantee: Bárbara Gonçalves Guazzelli
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master