O trem passou mas só vestígio ficou: impactos urbanísticos causados após a implantação da ferrovia em Santa Cruz - PB.

Abstract

This monographic research seeks to show the urban impacts that occurred in Santa Cruz after the railroad was implanted in 1951. The railroad through the branch line that connected the city of Mossoró in Rio Grande do Norte to Sousa in Paraíba. In the middle of the road was Santa Cruz, a small and inland town, 450 km from the capital João Pessoa, to this day has this “historical brand” that little has been said or said. We aim to analyze the cultural value of railway construction in this small urban space. In order to reach ends we developed the research through the production We also discussed the arrival of the railroad in the Northeast and the History of the formation of Brazilian cities. Some projects are focused on the research. requested by the City Council of the city with the objective of urbanizing Santa Cruz, in which some of the projects were carried out and others abdicated, which enabled us to know that the transformations that took place in Santa Cruz were performed, many of them by the government. Thus we realized that there was an urbanization in some aspects in Santa Cruz and in others the urbanization did not happen.