Memória e desenvolvimento : percepções das transformações da paisagem urbana no município de Vera Cruz/RS.

Abstract

This dissertation analyzed the main transformations of the urban landscape in the central area of the municipality of Vera Cruz / RS from the report and the memory of different agents. Using photographic records, historical documents and semi-structured interviews, we seek to observe the main transformations of the urban landscape that occurred since its emancipation, which occurred in 1959, until the recent period of 2019. These transformations relate to the urban landscape, and the importance of historical heritage and cultural, such as residential, commercial, administrative, religious and cultural buildings. This patrimony was not inventoried or protected by municipal, state or federal law. In this study, we consider as historical and cultural heritage not only the time of existence of the buildings as the main factor, but the context in which they are / were inserted, as well as the relationship of these buildings with the memory of their inhabitants. The methodology used was the dialectical materialistic historical method, having analyzed the categories of historicity and contradiction. The representation of the past, perceived in the reports, has been constituted amid disputes over the historical and social sense of the transformations that the municipality has been going through in the last decades. The perceptions of different residents and agents about the preservation and/or restoration of the built historical heritage, as well as the perception of the agents regarding the transformations of the urban landscape in the central area of the municipality are tensioned by the space-time antimonies of the capital's strength, which alters also the course of local history.