Modernidade Urbana e Flexibilidade Tropical: as Feiras livres na cidade do Rio de Janeiro (1904-1934)

Abstract

Literature dealing with the project of radicalurban reforms in Rio de Janeiro triggered by the mayor Pereira Passos omits street markets, created in 1904. These marketsare embedded with the logic and purposes o fthe civilizatory pedagogy of public spaces. They replace popular street commerce inherited fromthe colonnial slavery past. In a second stage,such regulated territory is refunctionalizedthrough the apropriation by popularsociability practices, being invaded by theambiguity and flexibility inherent to urbanmodernity.