Time and form: the configuration of urban nuclei from the transformation of agricultural parceling. Case study: Colônia de Caxias/RS

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the process of transforming agricultural to urban subdivision in Colônia de Caxias / RS. In view of the need to populate the extensive areas of land available in the 19th century, imperative government policies were created that facilitated the access of the foreign population to Rio Grande do Sul. The Land Law of 1850, or Law No. 601 of 18 from September 1850, it had regulations that regulated the colonist's insertion in national lands, the distribution of public lands and the transformation of the land into merchandise. The methodology adopted for this work is based on the survey and analysis of primary documentary sources, such as maps, decrees and period reports. Together with the systematization of these data, the relevant bibliography on the subject stands out. The article is exploratory and qualitative. In addition to the aforementioned general objective, the following stand out as specific objectives: to understand the process, map the parceling and the erudite knowledge of the person responsible for the urban layout. As a result achieved, it is considered that the orthogonality employed at the headquarters of Caxias had as its central objective to facilitate the trade of plots, rural and urban.