Usos, apropriações e representações de um espaço urbano

Abstract

This article aims to present the uses, the space appropriations, the representations and the symbolic disputes occurring in the neighbourhood of Praia de Iracema, located in the city of Fortaleza, capital of the state of Ceará, Brazil, after the interventions in the urban planning implemented by the State and Municipal governments during the 1990s. The main focus is on the symbolic representations associated with the “bohemia” and the “good-bye” allegories, interpreted as signalling temporal and spatial references.