As gran viás espanholas e as grandes avenidas brasileiras: entre projetos, reconfigurações e transformações urbanas

Abstract

This research aims to understand the projects and the construction of great avenues, introduced in urban planning at the beginning of the twentieth century, as a development and progress generating to their cities. Taking as its starting point the spread of Haussmannian model in the mid-nineteenth century, is sought through more detailed analysis of the Avenues Sete de Setembro in Salvador - Bahia, Brazil, and La Palmera in Seville, Spain, also compared the other Spanish and Brazilian examples, to understand how local governments have used the renovation and expansion plans to address unsanitary issues, lack of hygiene and poor living conditions in the cities in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. It seeks to understand the transformations and meanings that the openings of the avenues and their urban plans had for society and the historical-cultural context in which the used models were implemented, mainly by influence and pressure of the ruling class and government in studied cities.