Reminiscences landscapes of the modern city: apotheoses and decadence of the Parque Centenário, in Criciúma/SC

Abstract

Brazilian industrialization in the middle of the twentieth century stimulated profound transformations in urban landscapes and constituted unprecedented dimensions for new structures of
circulation and public use. In this process, state investments render possible the creation of new open spaces
that often reorganized the urban fabric and inserted themselves into the cities as signs of development. As a
heritage to the contemporary city, this generation of public areas is a mosaic of historical references to Brazilian urbanism, but also a challenge for a country that still has little recognition of its modern heritage. As an
object of study of this article, we discuss the insertions of Parque Centenário - modernist complex of the 1970s
and 80s, but already condemned by various decharacterizations - in the imaginary and urban structure of
Criciúma, an important industrial city in Santa Catarina, Brazil. Its recognition as one of the main public
works of modernism in the countryside of the country is considered to be a way to permeate any new possibilities for its preservation.