Territorial configuration, urbanization and heritage: Colônia da Glória (1876- 1904)

Abstract

This paper shortly presents some of the results contained in the thesis Configuração territorial, urbanização e patrimônio: Colônia da Glória (1876- 1904), defended in the graduated course of the Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo of the Universidade de São Paulo. The research about the development of territory, and the changes in its property and occupation, leads, in our point of view, to an enlarged knowledge of the physical references (natural, urban and architectonic) which identification and evaluation are searched in historic and cultural heritage preservation studies. Therefore, the identification of the permanence of territorial expressions implies the necessity of territory development studies. This neologism tries to clarify the spatial elements (places) which interact, influence and are influenced by social values, and, primarily, express meanings that constitute or may constitute specific references and identity values of this territory. These elements may conform, after this recognition, an object of reflection and action of cultural heritage preservation politics.