O litoral de Fortaleza e o planejamento urbano na primeira metade do século XIX a partir das plantas de Silva Paulet e Simões de Farias

Abstract

This article is about the process of urban expansion from Fortaleza/CE, and the occupation of its coast in the first half of the 19th Century, with the tool guiding the selection of some cartographic registry of urbanists Silva Paulet and Simões de Farias. Based on a reflection of the relationship between the construction of such documents with the moment of urban city permeated from Fortaleza surveyed the main cartographic registries of the period retracted. They are: a) “Planta do Porto e Villa da Fortaleza” (1813) and b) “Planta da Vila de Fortaleza” (1818), both Silva Paulet; c) “Planta da Cidade de Fortaleza” (1850) and d) “Ampliação da Planta de 1850”, both Simões de Farias. Lined around a reflection of Cartography in the ideological construction of space, it was the cartographic registries as geohistorical documents of expressiveness in debate in the first decades of the 19th Century, about the direction to be followed in the process of expanding the urban, particularly over the projection mode as the coastal zone from Fortaleza. So, the drawings of Paulet and Farias have their registries from the complexity of organizing the coast, posing – with the necessity for expansion of port activities – the debate around the emergence of coastal planning.