Veredas do Rio Claro: organização urbana e convívio social em Jataí (1887-1927)

Abstract

The human living in society, and especially in urban areas, requires the definition of rules that are appropriated for the planning and for the arrengement of collective life. To achieve this, human societies have created mechanisms for the organization of spaces and activities that enable groups to live in greater harmony. The analysis of the formation of urban life in the interior of Goiás, with emphasis on Jataí from the late nineteenth century until the end of the 1920s, takes place from legislative documents called the municipal codes, which are used as elements for guiding research. The prominence in shaping urban and addressing hygiene and sanitation present in these documents enables the perception of so-called civilizing process and the material transformations of urban space. It points out the main features of European and Brazilian urbanization, especially the motivations of the rapid growth of cities during the period considered, with focus to the case of Goiás. It analyzes the attitudes of urban Jataí as an element of control of the city and shaping a new way of living in public space. The case of the city of Jataí is studied to show how the legislation sought to interfere with everyday people just out of rural areas, revealing the action of so-called 'civilizing process' of the local society. Through the analysis of archival documents, it is understood as was the organization of public space and how the legislation affects the municipal acts on individuals. Small inland towns as Jataí went through a process guided by the dictates of civilization medicalsanitary and moral of the nineteenth century, which originated in Europe and influenced the whole modern world, which contributes significantly to the model of city that we experience today.