Tempos e espaços da Praia do Futuro: usos e classificações de uma zona liminar

Abstract

This work investigates the redefinitions of uses and classifications of Praia do Futuro in charge of new resort entertainment leisure located in the beach stretch of coastline east of the city of Fortaleza. The field of survey research includes the large complexes of barracks (a sort of bars, restaurants and concert halls by the sea) situated in the most part between Renato Braga Street and 31st March Square, the stretch known by businessmen, tourists and people from Fortaleza, as “new beach”. Three of these complexes exemplify the days when the beach is more redefined: the complex Crocobeach during “Sunday on the beach”, “Chico do Caranguejo” for “Quinta do Caranguejo” and the tent “Biruta” in the days of concerts and events. Besides being the most sought by people the complexes of tents largely encompass symbolic disputes about the redefinition of the Beach as a public property. The thesis was based on interviews, direct observation and photographic record of the times and places of leisure of the beach besides an important documental research about the classifications of uses that were constituted during the occupation of the site. The main argument developed considers that the attribution of meanings to an urban space articulates uses and classifications according to the positions taken in its interior and must have direct implications on how to classify a beach as a public estate.