Anápolis: uma cidade entre capitais (Goiânia e Brasília) e modernidades (1930-1960)

Abstract

In this work, we seek to trace the urban changes of the city of Anápolis –GO, between the 1930s, from the arrival of the railroad and the construction of Goiânia, until the construction of Brasília in 1960, within this historical period to understand how the process of modernization was reconfiguring the urban space of the city, and as the ideal of modernity was defining the social imaginary of the city, the influences that Goiânia and Brasília played in the ideal of modernity. The urbanization and construction of architectural works are a way to trace how the various sectors of Anapolina society have made the city a space of ruptures and continuations of history, where the thought projects were materialized or not, according to the aspiration of a project modern and progress that the city sought, in this sense the optics of work focuses on urban history as a space for understanding the city as a living place, the forms and desires of the agents who lived there. The process of urban change in search of a modern city, involved several internal and external factors, which contributed to the understanding of the temporal experience of this society.