A cidade os bondes e a light: caminhos da expansão do Rio de Janeiro (1850-1914)

Abstract

"The research examines the town's of expansion process, through the conquest of an the inhospitable region. We try to understand the main political and economical changes throughout its history, which leads to a particular formation conformation. Above all, it studies the interference in city spaces and in the citizen's way of life obtained by the political will of modernization and by the introduction of an advanced technology."