Planejamento urbano: análise da configuração do espaço da cidade de Montes Claros - MG

Abstract

This study presents an analysis of the urbanístico paper of the planning in Montes Claros – MG, with the hypothesis that the local practices of public planning had been influenced by the spread of modern urbanistics tendencies in Brazil, in the last decades. We search to discuss the perspective of ordering the urban space as a result of a systemic process that occurs in global level, influencing the regional and local strategies of development, as it has been the experience in Montes Claros. The perspectives of the process of urban planning affect the constitution of social-spatial relations that, through the phenomenon of the social segregation, incurs in social conflicts in the city, determining the composition of its territory. The territory is recognized as a conditional space by political, economical and social relations combined with public territorial actions – that is not limited as a result of strategical actions. We analyze some implications of the urban planning in the social context of Montes Claros as being determinant for the forms of the urban space appropriation and the relations for it raised. This work, characterized by an exploratory nature through bibliographical references, documents and semi structuralized interviews, aim to evidence in this discussion the historical experience of Montes Claros as an integral part of a national process of urban development and how the planning specialization determines the development of the city.