A metropolização de Confins: a intervenção do Estado e sua transformação socioespacial

Abstract

Organization and land use planning of municipalities have been through deep and intense changes, either imposed by capital and productive forces or yet by the necessity of adopting new territorial arrangements that meet specific needs and local particularities, bringing socio-economic and environmental transformations, thus leading to several investment models in planning, with different approaches. The last planning process of Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region, which is Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region Integrated Development Master Plan (Plano Diretor de DesenvolvimentoIntegrado da RegiãoMetropolitana de Belo Horizonte – PDDI RMBH 2009-2011), and its respective Macrozoning (MZ-RMBH 2014), point to the evidence of occurrence of some socio-space processes initiated from governmental structuring actions, as it is verified in the case of the Municipality of Confins, which has already changed all its specific legislation to establish that the urban perimeter, as defined in the present Master Plan (Lei Complementar no. 012/2009), corresponds to the entirety of municipal borders. It was sought by the present study to analyse the processes of land use planning of the Municipality of Confins, in light of their social and economic aspects, mainly with regards to the extinction of municipality’s rural zone, taken into effect by the change in its Master Plan in force (2009), being understood that such issue exerted fundamental role to the new territorial arrangement e development of RMBH, and vice-versa. Finally, to what extent were the land use planning processes observed in Confins derived from disputes among different interests present in the planning and shaping of Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region? The justification of this study relied on the importance of shedding some light over the role of Tancredo Neves International Airport (AITN), and over the pressure imposed by the implementation of CidadeAdministrativa and Vetor Norte as inductive actions of the new socio territorial arrangement of the Municipality of Confins.