Maps as operators in the genesis of the sprawling city. Deconstruction and cartographic semiosis in the analysis of plants in the city of São Paulo between 1877 and 1930
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The present work deals with the cartography produced about the city of São Paulo between 1877 and 1930 and how this cartography interfered in the way the city was seen and constructed in the period. We begin from the configuration of the metropolitan urban and its extension, so that the questions which guided the research revolved around the city’s sprawling’s logic. The city was designed for such structure or was it a product of the real estate market? Is this spreading due to socio-spatial inequalities or is it one of its causes? And, finally, if the maps interfered in the production of the sprawled city. Through a geo-historical approach and methodology of New History of Cartography map analysis, which constitutes in the deconstruction of cartographic objects through the understanding of the context in which they were elaborated, the thesis was developed. Therefore, the first part of the work is the contextualization of the period through existing bibliography, in addition to the analysis of the São Paulo City Hall’s minutes and annals, and the main deputies’ and mayors’ reports, aiming the comprehension of the period and the way in which the municipal patrimony —as lands belonging to the municipality— was being appropriated by the real estate market in the city’s construction, while obeying the code of posture that, since 1875, required that the municipality was mapped. With the objective of analyzing whether the maps would have performance capability in the geographic space, that is, if they acted as operators in the construction of the sprawled city, we also opted for unfolded analyzes of cartographic semiosis for a better understanding of the phenomena ofself-reference and iconization.
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