Cartografia do litoral de Fortaleza na década de 1940

Abstract

This paper discusses the implementation of Fortaleza Master Plan process proposed by José Otacílio Saboya Ribeiro in the year of 1947, highlighting its infl uence on the socio-spacial coastline of the municipality. The focus of this analysis is on the urban form and we sought to study the topographical plans, comparing and contrasting them with the available documents, so we intend to understand how was the process of occupation of Fortaleza coastline in 1940 decade. The study is based in the topographic plan and seeks the ideological construction of the urban space. In this analysis we used the Saboya Ribeiro’s cartographic images fi le, correlating them with other sources, especially newspapers (Correio do Ceará and O Povo). From the discussion of those topographic plans it is possible to notice the searching of a new direction to the coastline of Fortaleza in the 1940 decade. The coastline was employed as an argument for public urban structure interventions with the changing of the use and occupation of the land, making this historic period as a milestone that redirected the forma urbis of Fortaleza coastline.