Por uma nova cidade: discursos de modernidade e progresso no Jornal Folha do Norte em Feira de Santana/BA (1900-1930).

Abstract

Since the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century, city planning was imposed as a result of the claim by the provision of basic needs to the townspeople: hygiene, lighting, security, mobility, demanding the creation of the security elements for these services due to population concentration created problems for administrators. Therefore, this article tries to analyze the experiences of urbanization in the city of Feira de Santana, Bahia, coupled with modernizing and progressive ideals through the newspaper Folha do Norte during the first three decades of the twentieth century, in its materiality: tracing streets, opening new neighborhoods, zoning, adoption of updated building techniques suitable to express visually the "arrival" of progress styles. It is perceived through the newspaper to the continuing concern of public bodies and local authorities to perform the displacement representation of Feira de Santana city while rural bases, to define it as a large city endowed with a powerful commerce and a city structure. So in that sense, it is examined, the relationship between the modernizing ideals present in republican ideals and his alliance as new forms of perception of the city.