Yesteryear "Countryside"

Local resistance against the development of the industrial city between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century

Abstract

The recent dissemination of the studies and exhibitions organized on ruralism carried out by AMO have revived the debates on the logic of urbanization and the means for the construction of a landscape closer to nature.

In this work, we will take as an example what happened during the late 19th century and early 20th century, understanding such a time as the moment of greatest crisis for the development of cities and industrial-capitalist urbanizations after the paradigm shift that meant the creation of of the internal combustion engine, with its consequent urban migrations.

The job opportunities that motivated these migrations were transformed into the formation of slums and dangerous overcrowding for general health, which generated the formation of numerous social crises that would gradually be subdued by a main instrument: workers' housing.

In this way, we will deepen the relationships between workers' housing with the various architectural styles and types, and, in turn, the construction of urban imaginaries as resistance to the advance of modernization. This review of our urban past, based on the similarities with contemporary debates, we believe will provide us with unquestionable tools for the resolution and analysis of our future.