Memória urbana: uma abordagem para a geografia histórica a partir de antigos loteamentos do bairro de Campo grande (RJ)

Abstract

The Campo Grande neighborhood, located on the west side of the city of Rio de Janeiro, was, until the middle of the twentieth century, a rural area, mostly composed of farms and farms producing orange, vegetables and others. With the fall of citrus in the 1950s, rural properties were transformed into subdivisions that transformed the old rural area and brought socio-environmental consequences. The present work aims to understand how the old subdivisions boosted the urban expansion of the neighborhood through the testimonies of the residents who experienced this transformation, identifying the impacts of this urbanization from the everyday. To this end, oral history was adopted as a method, which consists of conducting interviews with preferably elderly people or those who witnessed facts of different orders, which can contribute to scientific research. It was noticed that, with the appearance of the old subdivisions, the urban expansion of the neighborhood was accelerated over time, reconfiguring the local space and bringing socio-environmental impacts. Thus, it is concluded that Historical Geography, associated with the testimonies of former residents of the neighborhood, contributed a lot to this research. We conclude, therefore, that the memory expanded the historical vision of the urban expansion of the city