Some considerations about Pereira Passos urban reform

Abstract

This article is a review of the literature about the Pereira Passos Urban Reform undertaken in Rio de Janeiro, then capital, during the mandate of president Rodrigues Alves and mayor Pereira Passos, between 1902 and 1906. It was the first big intervention urban in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The objective is to discuss the urban reforms, aiming to bring elements not yet so explored, enabling another view about the urban transformations and about the mayor himself, enriching the discussion and demystifying some facts. In this sense, what the historiography called the Pereira Passos Urban Reform, in fact, were two reforms undertaken at the same time and space, however, with different authors and proposals. In addition, letters exchanged between the mayor and engineer Alfredo Américo de Souza Rangel may reveal opinions of the mayor little expected, related to the transformations in the capital. The work consists in a bibliographical research and documentary analysis through official and primary sources.