Desenvolvimento local e o processo de territorialização de elite: os condomínios como fator de segregação espacial em Montes Claros - MG

Abstract

The aim of this study was to show the process of modern cities urban transformations. We search here in special a city of the North of Minas Gerais Montes Claros, where the local elite, have elected a privileged region to build their properties, creating an excludent territory intensifying the urban spacial segregation phenomenon. This region, called Loteamente Ibituruna has been transformed in a luxurious area, materialized in the logical of closed condominiums and shopping centers, very different from the other available areas in the local real estate agencies. Based on the history of the process of privatization of public spaces, we intend to build a reference to understand this process in the particularity of the historic-social of Montes Claros city. Through the documents requiered from the organizations and from the local urban development agents we analysed this process as an integrant part and resultant of a phenomenon that occurs in all the world-wide sectors.