Bexiga: daily life and work (1906-1931)

Abstract

Result of the research carried out for the preparation of a doctoral thesis, this work proposes to meet spatial configuration and a human neighborhood along little more than a century resulted in the territory today known as “Bexiga”. To do this, the design of the methodology and the work lines used for your development were fundamental, in that it enabled the articulation of the various dimensions of that space. Then there are the actual goals of the job. On the other hand, the role played by the Bexiga in the process of urban transformation occurred in São Paulo, between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. At that time, unlike the colonial city, focusing on historical and Hill apparently more homogeneous, the city of the First Republic showed a tendency towards specialization of spaces: the central perimeter, with trade and specialized services; and the urban and suburban areas with residential neighborhoods for high, medium and low layers. On the other hand, taking into account the human element, central to the understanding of urban space, unravel the sociotopografia and forms of sociability, as well as tensions between different social groups that have experienced the neighborhood, through the identification of profile of prevailing social actors. In this way, it is intended to demystify the stereotypes related to the Bexiga as a homogenous neighborhood, assuming the premise of the idea of diversity and clarifying the various facets of an area not exclusively Italian and either “encortiçada” and “worker”.