The legacy of the Costa Pereira square in Vitória/ES from the physical site and urban insertion

Abstract

Public squares are fundamental urban structures for understanding the relationship between man and the city and can carry a symbolic and historical legacy as essential contributions to the urban and morphological challenges imposed by 21st century cities. In this context, the Costa Pereira square located in the Center of Vitória, a city in southeastern Brazil, remains with a strong character of urban centrality given by the joint convergence of numerous socio-spatial elements and practices that give it a peculiar character. Therefore, the objective of this article is to understand the role of the physical site and the design of the urban layout that precedes the opening of the square, from a narrative that allows reflections on the urban insertion of Largo da Conceição in the light of Portuguese urbanism, speculating possible previous and indigenous appropriations of the territory. The research was based on a bibliographic review, also resorting to iconography, cartographic and the use of three-dimensional aspects of the site's topography. Under a flat place of confluence of waters, the choice of location reveals a strategic and connecting place that contributed to the subsequent urban layout and the consolidation of the place's vocation to attract elements, people and events, in the light of urban centrality.

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