Modernização, sanitarismo e cotidiano (Jacobina-BA 1955-1959).

Abstract

This master’s thesis had as its main objective to analyze the process of urban modernization and sanitation of the town of Jacobina that happened in the second half of 1950, during the municipal governing of Orlando Oliveira Pires (1955-1959). Using material as newspapers texts, administrative documents, municipal laws, hotographs, Code a Conduct, minute books of the town council, State Sanitation Code, accountability reports of the mayor and memory texts,along this research, we search to describe and examine, on the one hand, the innovations in urban planning, as theconstruction of a large avenue, paving, sanitation and neatness of the main streets; the implantation of plumbing, the enhancement of electricity services and the building of municipal stadium, pointing out how this process of modernization/urbanization happened in a partial and excluding way, taking place basically on the streets of the downtown area. On the other hand, the action developed aiming at sanitizing and standardizing the conduct in urban areas and the practices of citizens, proposed by the mayor, sanitation-doctors and journalists; demonstrating that these measures frequently confronted with the people. Accompanying the daily-life of these streets, we search to visualize the multiple usage and appropriation of the urban area that appeared in the streets of Jacobina, breaking with the intended urban order.