O processo de formação do bairro Cidade Nova em Diamantina/MG e as novas relações estabelecidas entre os moradores face à criação do Parque Estadual de Biribiri

Abstract

The city of Diamantina/MG travels the path of the "real estate boom" Brazil, driven by the expansion of the Federal University in the city. The advance of the urban fabric following areas bordering the Integral Protection Conservation Unit, the State Park Biribiri. The situation becomes conflicted as the New Town neighborhood precedes the creation of the park, it is peripheral to the city, the first residents there built their homes in a community helping system. Research sees understand the social and spatial implications of the standards imposed by the advent of Conservation Unit for former residents of the neighborhood who use that space in their daily lives, as well as face the new time of expansion of settlements in neighboring areas to park with relevant direct or indirect impacts on natural environments. In the 1990s, one of the few city growth options for the low-income population was in the New Town neighborhood; at the time, there was a collective effort to build the barracks covered with asbestos tiles, given the housing yearning of the nascent community. The poor settled in this distant space of the urban core because of the exorbitant price of rents in the historic center. Alleged compensation could exist for the resident of that peripheral area, for example, obtaining wood of rock fields, abundant water sprouting in crystalline massifs, gold adventure in improvised mines with bateias and the faisqueiras and the dream of the diamond. However, the urban spatial planning, arranged in an adjacent territory with a natural environment employee singled natural attractions, plus the proximity of circumstances unrolled by the rampant occupation process, served to create a collective sense of belonging to the neighborhood and who would to become a vertical determination, the Park. In light of these considerations, it is imperative to understand the impasse involving the residents of the neighborhood related to the living and leisure space, when part of it is appropriated by external laws to be defined as Conservation Unit.