Organización territorial de Recife: el espacio urbano y el hábitat obrero

At  the  beginning  of  the  twenty  century, Recife  was  a  city  in  which  the  industry developmcnt    and   the   increase   of   the population emphasize the lack of dwellings. The workers habitat has been a proclamation subject of the hygienists, the workers and the State. So, this essay refers to the new territorial  organization  project  of  Recife,. to  th e  speech   of  the  necessi ty   of  to extinguish         the   slums   and   to   bu ild neighborhoods of social dwellings. The text also narrares about Camaragibe, an industry whose localization  is  16 km from Recife, where houses was buil t  around the indus­ trial centre. The documental  investigation is based on the following sources 1) the files of the Camaragibe's factory in The Joaquim Na buco   Institutc   of  Social   Researches

( FUNDAJ); 2) the newspaper files, whose objective was to recognize the speech of different social segments and their vision of the society where they lived and 3) the state laws. This two last sourccs are from the State Filling-cabinet of Pernambuco. Tn sumrnary, the construction of social dwellings at the beginnings of the XX Century in Recife represented a new territorial organization, where entire neighborhoods wcre created and still last to our days as the workers' places in the city.