URBAN GEO-HISTORIOGRAPHIES: CITY, CIVILIZATION AND MODERNITY CONSIDERATIONS

Abstract

This paper proposes an analysis about formation and development of the city, civilization and modernity in the Occident, from a interpretation of some narratives of the literary sources of authors in the field of humanities and Geography that addressed the issues. Therefore, a priori, in the field of this analysis it also develops a critical thought around the conceptual debate on analytical dichotomy city-field, such categories usually seen in constant antagonism on the course of western civilization; because of predominance of a synchronic interpretation of history that itself seeks to eliminate the natural process of dialectics which is present in all empirical thinking; where in such narratives in general the western polis is presented as a adequatium rerum et civilitas. It also analyzes narratives about city and civilization in the advent of modernity and discusses aspects of socio-spatial formation and intrusion of modernity in Brazil during the Second Empire (1840-1889) and also the Iconography of Landscape as a reference for the study of past cultural landscapes.