A expansão espacial e a mobilidade urbana em cidades médias: o caso de Montes Claros/MG

Abstract

This article discusses the functionality of the medium-sized cities from its power hub, its spatial expansion and the implications on urban mobility, taking as scope the spatial processes that take place due to their flows. Cities take relief in the contemporary urbanization process and its features relate increasingly to the demographic and economic flows in respect of non-metropolitan areas. In this context the paper presents a brief discussion of the production of urban space, the notion of medium-sized cities and urban expansion, where it enters the changes elapsed in the urban average city of Montes Claros from the 1970s through the decade 1980, the inclusion of the city in Midsize Cities program, to the current period, considering the published studies, the context of urbanization and the applied legislation. The post discusses the spatial configuration of the road system considering the studies conducted on the relationship between the road layout, urban morphology and mobility, analyzing the functional character of the system and identifying the tradition of urban design, it is disregarded a series of urban variables and planning modes. Therefore discussed and mobility rates in the city, from the analysis of travel time at an intersection with the income data, according to the IBGE weighting areas. Finally you have the presentation of the Master Plan guidelines and ongoing operations or that are necessary from the reading of this space, how it can contribute to the improvement of the road system, traffic infrastructure and transport system collective, to obtain an efficient and sustainable urban mobility system