Cidade Pensada: os sonhos, as ideias e os projetos de planificação urbana em Montes Claros/MG na segunda metade do século XX

Abstract

Experiences of urban planning in the city of Montes Claros/MG during the second half of the twentieth century are presented in this thesis with the intention to understand the forms of urban planning in this city. To achieve this purpose a literature review was performed on theoretical frameworks of urbanism and urban planning, in addition to research in the Archives of the City Council of Montes Claros with the purpose of gather and analyze the urban plans of the time frame used. We realize that throughout this period the urban plans were guided by models based on national urban policies. We can say that the historiography of urban planning took place in Montes Claros matched with the assumptions of a comprehensive national urban policy, consists of propositions of modern planning that ensured conceptual and pra ctical bases of urban plans of almost all the surveyed period.