As intervenções urbanas de Domingos de Freitas Diniz Neto em São Luís – MA

Abstract

The city of São Luís has already undergone several transformations by urban interventions aimed at favoring its growth and mitigating the existing in the urban space. These interventions were carried out by trained technical staff, which for various political and social reasons had been excluded from the collective memory of the city's history. Therefore, this work aims to rescue the memory of the engineer Domingos de Freitas Diniz Neto, mainly addressing his interventions in the city of São Luís executed after graduating from the Escola Nacional de Engenharia do Brasil, when he returns to Maranhão and plays an important role acting at the head of several public offices, studying, planning and implementing several interventions that generated significant impacts on the configuration of the contemporary urban space of the city, in order to consolidate growth trends, through the promulgation of the Rodoviário do Estado do Maranhão Plan (1965), with the study, analysis and adaptations of the São Luís City Expansion Plan (1958), proposed by the engineer Ruy Mesquita.