Manaus e seus Igarapés: A construção da cidade e suas representações (1880-1915)

Abstract

This paper seeks to contribute to the history of Manaus, identifying the representation of streams during their first process of urbanization, economic favoritism happened when the rubber between the years 1880 and 1915. We analyze actions to build the spatiality of the city where our proposition is that the discourse of modernity and progress, present since the early transformations of settlement, acted as generating elements of a negative representation of streams and their nature, contributing to the realization of the logic of exclusion of these landscape elements and the daily lives of its people. In this scenario, we seek to understand how the actions engendered by the government and the elite of the moment, searching for equipping the city up to the standards of a Modern Urbanism and curative, produced changes in the geography of the creeks and established the norms guiding their uses and appropriations. The study aims to demonstrate the desired city and built by the government and lived by the elite and the existing city and weathered, lived and experienced by urban workers, revealing how the streams were thought, practiced and veiled, demonstrating the capitalist logic of world domination.