The article is a proposal to reflect upon Teresina city, capital of Piauí, in the mid20th century, period in which the capital of Piauí, in a similar movement occurred in other cities of the same importance, it should pass by multiple and varied architectural interventions, which they were done with the intention of changing it in the most beautiful city of hinterland. This process of modernization although, shouldn’t be received with no conflict, for as much the idealized urban embellishment - proclaimed by urbanists and scholars - stumbled on a reality represented by streets where mud wall hovels lined up covered with babaçu coconut straw. In attempt of capture the mentioned process above, made use of chronicles published in local periodics as privileged sources, for as much the chroniclers were considered as observers more attentive to the daily of the city. They are more attentive than majority of population and, by their performance, with the greatest and the best conditions to reverberate in the city. Making use of chronicles as sources we intended to do an incursion through the frontiers of History and Literature.
Teresina; chronicles; modernization