The coast of Fortaleza and the Urban Planning in the First Half of the 19th Century from the Maps of Silva Paulet and Simões de Farias

Abstract

This article is about the process of urban expansion from Fortaleza/CE, and the occupation of its coast in the first half of
the 19th Century, with the tool guiding the selection of some cartographic registry of urbanists Silva Paulet and Simões
de Farias. Based on a reflection of the relationship between the construction of such documents with the moment of
urban city permeated from Fortaleza surveyed the main cartographic registries of the period retracted. They are: a) “Planta do Porto e Villa da Fortaleza” (1813) and b) “Planta da Vila de Fortaleza” (1818), both Silva Paulet; c) “Planta da
Cidade de Fortaleza” (1850) and d) “Ampliação da Planta de 1850”, both Simões de Farias. Lined around a reflection of
Cartography in the ideological construction of space, it was the cartographic registries as geohistorical documents of
expressiveness in debate in the first decades of the 19th Century, about the direction to be followed in the process of
expanding the urban, particularly over the projection mode as the coastal zone from Fortaleza. So, the drawings of Paulet
and Farias have their registries from the complexity of organizing the coast, posing – with the necessity for expansion of
port activities – the debate around the emergence of coastal planning.