Domesticando a paisagem: um estudo sobre verticalização, modernidade e meio ambiente em Campina Grande/PB (1996-2012).

Abstract

This monograph has as its thematic axis urban verticalization of Campina Grande/PB, a project of modernity and city development received in the city from the second half of the XX century. Like every urbanization project, it is necessary to think about the negative social and environmental impacts on the city. Thus, this research aims to problematize the reception of urban verticalization in Campina Grande, while a modemization and development project based on the social and environmental impacts promoted in the city. To this end, the sources used include interviews using methodology in oral history; photographic and journalistic sources; and the city's Master Plan, published in 1996 and updated in 2006. To analyze these sources and the construction of our narrative, the theoretical-methodological fíeld used is mainly used at the interface between Environmental History, Cultural History and other fíelds of know, highlighting the importance of interdisciplinarity for a scientific research; besides the dialogue with authors that discuss the relation between History and orality and, History and photography. With this work we seek to construct a narrative that contemplates as contradictions of the history of progress, which narrates the buildings and organizes them as monuments of modernity and development, and excludes the social and environmental impacts that develop along the urbanization processes.