Origem da expansão do Recife: divisão do solo e configuração da trama urbana

Abstract

The several available studies about the city of Recife, Brazil, consider the urban plan of the Dutch Architect Pieter Post (1639) as the basis of the first urban core, and propose a spontaneous urban sprawl following the paths that connected the farms to the harbor. The Planta da Cidade do Recife e Arredores, from 1932 (Plan of the City of Recife and Surroundings) pictures the existing urban fabric and a vast territory around it, occupied by the farms.In less than a century, the rural landscape was divided in allotments which evolution is shown in the research in course.The absence of studies that focus on the origin of Recife’s urbanization has motivated the research to show that the division of the rural land, oriented by the urban legislation of 1932 and 1936, is the essence of its urban growth on the 20th century