Do Bom Fim à Cidade Baixa : o uso dos espaços de lazer noturno (1964-2006)

Abstract

The present work proposes reconstitute, spatially, the places of night entertainment from Cidade Baixa district, since the beginning of Dictatorship until the year of 2006. Due your intrinsic relation with Bom Fim, the places of this neighboring district also are collected, as well as the nearby areas with which divided the public and shared routes, moves and uses. The dissertation covers four periods of the district, trying to demonstrate the public differences, motivation and desired spatial characteristics of the nightlife interaction places from the area. It tries to localize spatially the most significant nightly entertainment places of each period, from crossing sources, information in periodicals (interviews and reports), area publications and testimonials from people who have experienced these moments. In the first period (from city foundation until 1964) are presented the urban changes and the consolidation of morphologies and typologies at Bom Fim and Cidade Baixa, and their memory elements. In the second (1964-1985), during the Dictatorship, demonstrates the growth phase of Cidade Baixa associated to its nightly use, from a public migration of Bom Fim to its territory, motivated by the opposition to the current regime, manifested in subversive pamphlets, and subsequently enhanced by the closing of the bars of this neighboring until the Esquina Maldita. In the third moment (1985-1995), treats of the development of the other point of bars in Bom Fim district, its height and the violence taking the place, which reaches a high level that precludes the use of space, inducing the migration of its visitors to other parts of the city, especially for the Cidade Baixa district. In the fourth period (1995-2006), treats of the transformation of this district, from the ultimate closing of the nocturnal leisure spaces of Bom Fim and the development of Cidade Baixa from the creation of Nova Olaria Cultural Center. The work finalizes showing the propensity of local growth. The research builds physical-territorial maps, registering and locating the development of this space while nightlife place, and its links to the surrounding areas. The research tries to contribute with the knowledge of the city, of its history and memory.