Concentração de terras e a produção do espaço urbano de Montes Claros /MG

Abstract

This dissertation proposes a study on land concentration, power relations and their reflexes in urban spaces. To this end, the objective was to analyze the production of urban space in Montes Claros/MG from the viewpoint of the interests of economic elites regarding real estate. In view of the urban, social, economic and legal issues involved in this subject, this is a predominantly qualitative research which, through bibliographic and documentary surveys, aims to investigate how the city is configured through specific and articulated actions and how this implies in the formation of unequal urban spaces and in the disregard of the social function of property, which is among the fundamental rights and guarantees enshrined in the Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil of 1988. Thus, initially, we present the spatial cutout of this work, namely, the municipality of Montes Claros, as well as its location in the north of Minas Gerais, by means of historical notes that are relevant to the understanding of the problems related to property today. Later, a contextualization of concepts and categories that are important for the debate is carried out, followed by a case study made with the use of figures and tables constructed through documentary research, for a better analysis of the phenomena under discussion. Finally, the legal problems arising from the concentration of land are surveyed and possible instruments for land regularization are evaluated, especially the adverse possession. As a result, it is noted that, historically, the way the city is divided territorially, in a scenario of many contradictory economic and political interests, implies a series of irregularities of fact and record, whose resolution is often difficult and time-consuming, leading to urban informality and, consequently, vulnerability and social inequality in cities.