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Accepted Paper:

Azoreans in the construction of urban space in colonial Brazil  
Luisa Durán Rocca (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)

Paper short abstract:

This paper studies the urban practices arising from the migration program subsidized azorean families settled in the north and south of Brazil from de 16th and until the 18th century and examines the association between migration, cultural identity, frontiers, urbanism and architecture.

Paper long abstract:

From the 16th century and throughout the colonial period the azorean and madeiran subsidized migration was the solution proposed by the Portuguese Crown to two situations: in the archipelagos the demographic problems; in Brazil, the imminent need to guarantee occupation of immense territories incorporated by the formation of small urban settlements networks for the islanders to the economic development and stabilization of the civil society. The consecrated historiography, in particular the historical studies of the decade of 1930, is permeated with emotion; It turns a great emptiness in relation to the knowledge of the phenomenon, since specific parameters of the urban planning and architecture. In order to illustrate the spatial practices in the regions of azorean colonization in the north and in the south of Brazil, this work systematizes the urban plants in their initial stage and analyzes the spatial configuration with the situational and geographic variables, the degree of miscegenation and the degree of permanence of the traditional practices and forms versus the degree of interference of academic urbanism. Since the refounding of São Luiz (1615) until the occupation of the frontier areas after the Madrid Agreement (1750) in the north (Amazonas and Amapá) and the south (Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul and the Colonia del Sacramento) is seen beyond the demographic and cultural contribution of the azoreans, the maturation of an urban planning practice which in its final stage coincides with the urbanism of the enlightenment and combines the popular tradition and scholarly knowledge.

Panel P14
Archipelagos, islands and shores: history of land use and urban planning in the fifteen and sixteen century Atlantic world
  Session 1