The maps as “spatial operators” in the construction of the São Paulo city in the early twentieth century||Os mapas como “operadores espaciais” na construção da cidade de São Paulo do início do século XX||The maps as “spatial operators” in the construction of the São Paulo city in the early twentieth century

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What is sought is how the early twentieth century trans­formations environment influenced and was in­fluenced by cartographic production, in the case of maps that were being produced representing the city of São Paulo and its surroundings. The hypothesis is that the way the mapping reflected the changes began to take part in the city’s dy­namic and that the ingredients of this dynamic (the growth of ideas and expansion, for example) have to be guided by maps, thus turning maps into “spatial operators”. The main objective of the research is to contribute to the development of a cartographic geohistory in the perspective of analyzing the maps as social facts/phenome­na and thus reflect on the extent and duration of these phenomena on the organization and functioning of spaces of societies. ||What is sought is how the early twentieth century trans­formations environment influenced and was in­fluenced by cartographic production, in the case of maps that were being produced representing the city of São Paulo and its surroundings. The hypothesis is that the way the mapping reflected the changes began to take part in the city’s dy­namic and that the ingredients of this dynamic (the growth of ideas and expansion, for example) have to be guided by maps, thus turning maps into “spatial operators”. The main objective of the research is to contribute to the development of a cartographic geohistory in the perspective of analyzing the maps as social facts/phenome­na and thus reflect on the extent and duration of these phenomena on the organization and functioning of spaces of societies.||Neste artigo busca-se compreender de que forma o ambiente de transformações do início do século XX influenciou e foi influencia­do pela produção cartográfica, no caso específi­co dos mapas que estavam sendo produzidos re­presentando a cidade de São Paulo e seu entorno. A hipótese deste trabalho é que a forma como a cartografia refletia as mudanças começou a par­ticipar da dinâmica da cidade e que os ingredien­tes dessa dinâmica (as ideias de crescimento e expansão, por exemplo) passaram a ser orienta­dos pelos mapas, ou seja, os mapas tornaram-se “operadores espaciais”. O objetivo principal da pesquisa é contribuir para o desenvolvimento de uma geo-história cartográfica na perspectiva de analisar os mapas como fatos/fenômenos sociais e assim refletir sobre a extensão e duração des­ses fenômenos na organização e funcionamento dos espaços das sociedades.