Sobre os trilhos da metrópole: a dinâmica metropolitana de Fortaleza através do transporte metroferroviário

Abstract

Historically, the train has always been a sign of development by the places that traced its tracks. The means of transport that emerged even in the 1st Industrial Revolution could cause nothing less than a great revolution at the time becoming the main mod al for goods and people with great efficiency. In addition, the train also brought the latest news from farther locations. Faced with this innovation with positive points, the train begins to be disseminated in several countries in the world, such as Brazi l, which still in the 19th century had great incentive from the Imperial Government to implement this means of transport in the flows of goods and people in the emerging nation of continental dimension. Ceará was one of the provinces benefited that after a considerable time, already in the Republic, the railroads extended to the point of integrating regionally with the other states of the northeast, but also began urbanization processes and altered the dynamics of these locations, but, in addition, the trai n also culminated in a higher stage of urbanization called metropolization. Having said that, this work aims to understand the metropolization of Fortaleza, Ceará, such as the formation of its metropolitan region through (metro)rail transport in a geohisto rical perspective in which it was possible from a methodological procedure through a bibliographic review, cartographic and data survey and by a field work. Thus, the then work has the importance of showing the relevant socio spatial transformations that c ulminated in the process of metropolization through the modal (metro)railway that so important in the flows of Fortaleza and its Metropolitan Region.