To search of an urban ideology through evidence: der Städtebau and the presence of a germanic ideology on the construction of cities in the Porto Alegre of the beginning of the twentieth century

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the research process guided by evidences and to share some of the results by incessant search of deciphering puzzles, plots or secrets engaged in the act of telling the History. Based on the evidential paradigm of Ginzburg, the paper clarifies why and how important city planning manuals published in Berlin and Vienna in the late nineteenth century were found in the collection of the Porto Alegre School of Engineering. The paper also presents the trajectory of the Engineer Roberto Bruno de Escobar, graduated from the School of Engineering in 1910, and his contribution to the construction of an urban thinking of the Porto Alegre of the beginning of the twentieth century.