The Spatial Ideology for Brazilian national State constitution

Abstract

In the debate on Brazilian national state construction, we assume that this process was consolidated at the core of a fragmentary valorization of its aesthetic variants, forming a controversial spatial ideology with sense of identity to the nation. Progress, modernization and territorial integration emerge as watchwords on the link between the imagined nation in Imperial Brazil, and the nation as it concretizes itself throughout the twentieth century, although the speech and actions for rescue of brazilianness culture. It becomes evident, in that scope, a tendency to think the nation more as a cultural product of an elite (established pieces of colonial towns and baroque) than think it by symbols of hybrid territories formation representing the totality of its builders: the antagonistic protagonists.