Pensar o Centro Histórico de Manaus frente ao processo de normatização

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Abstract

The research that underlies the protection of the Historic District of Manaus / AM, produced by the Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional - Iphan, while presenting the criteria that support the choice of the urban site as an object of safeguard, poses the challenge of management of this space as Cultural Heritage based on rules that aim to regulate the process of “making the city”. This article presents the approaches developed in the regularization process of the Center of Manaus / AM, which included the realization of a social research that aimed to gather data to make technical perspectives compatible with that of social perception. In this sense, the approach cooperated to “think the city” generating the approach to those who perceive, attribute values ​​and appropriate the cultural assets and spaces of the historic district, the citizens. In short, this experience that is now reported, endorses the debate around the policy of urban cultural heritage and its intrinsic relationship to the aspects of immaterial culture that give it value and recognition.