“Cohaserma - quando o urbanismo toca a História”: as construções dos conjuntos habitacionais em São Luís (1970- 1980)

Abstract

The Geographic Space is a stage where the actors construct and deconstruct nuances, marking times and people. Cities, in turn, are the greatest example of how the Human Being directly interferes in this Space, for its own benefit, even if, in many cases, the desire for profit is not concerned with the Environment. The Housing Complexes, from the time of the Military Regime, are a clear reflection of the role of the State in seeking development and progress, allied to the fight against the precariousness in which the cities found themselves, at the time, in relation to housing. Between houses, families and streets, friendships are built, ties are intertwined and feelings are touched upon, individual and collective memory carries with it a potential force to preserve and even build a cultural identity within an urban environment. Cohaserma, who are your residents and what were the peculiarities that made and continue to make, for many generations, feel at home? It is within this housing and identity bias that the present work proposes to reflect