Espaços de negócios: história e transformações

Abstract

This dissertation deals with the theme of trade and service activities, focusing on their spaces of achievement throughout history. This research has a basic nature and as a methodology it reviews bibliographies – especially of historical nature – to analyze the main civilizations that lived in the Eurocentric context and in the Near East, from Antiquity to the Modern Age. The research discusses about such civilizations, contextualizes their predominant social, political, economic and cultural characteristics, highlights the role of trade activities in their organizations and thus recognizes the main spaces in which these activities are performed. From these analyses, trade spaces, their formats and the way they are articulated with the territory in which they are inserted, are described and evaluated. Thus, the purpose of this dissertation is to relate different historical contexts and the most relevant spaces and formats that commerce and services activities occupy and assume in these contexts. Therewith, it intends to contribute to the understanding of the logic that guides the composition of tertiary spaces, over different historical periods and processes, which is a reflection of society and the contexts to which they are related.