Transformações e permanências na Avenida João Durval Carneiro, Feira de Santana/BA (1964-2024)

Abstract

This research aims to understand the transformations and permanences that characterize the configuration of Avenida João Durval Carneiro, in Feira de Santana (BA), between 1964 and 2024. The study investigates how physical and functional changes, as well as socio-spatial persistences, express the contradictions of the city's urban development model and how these dynamics materialize in its urban design. The deactivation of the Railway Station in 1964 is adopted as a fundamental milestone, signaling the transition from a railway-based to a roadbased logic, which boosted the avenue as an axis of tertiary expansion. Methodologically, the work adopts a qualitative approach, structured through bibliographic review, cartographic analysis, and field surveys, including photographic records. The theoretical framework articulates concepts of urban design, landscape, and the production of space. The analysis highlights the Feira da Estação Nova (Estação Nova Fair) as a symbolic and functional core of cultural and economic permanence, which resists modernization pressures and transformations. It concludes that the avenue constitutes a heterogeneous scenario where distinct temporalities coexist, revealing the role of urban design as a material record of conflicts between institutional planning and everyday appropriations.