I - Planning and urban / housing
policies and politics
II – Urban political ecology
III – Metropolitan planning
Heloisa Costa
UFMG / Geography Dept.
Planning and urban / housing policies
and politics
Right to the city and production of space
Production of the periphery
Urban reform movement – from the heroic phase to
excessive institutional/legal concerns –
captured by market
forces ?
Belief in social and territorial transformation
Participation and urban governance – committees
participatory budget, etc
Critical analysis of urban and housing policies - land
regularization and informal areas upgrading, master plans
and City Statute instruments, Minha Casa, minha vida, etc
URBEL Intervention Areas
ELABORAtTION: Planning Nuclei – NUPL/URBEL SOURCE: PRODABEL/URBEL
DATE: 1999
*1 ZEIS-1: regions disorderly occupied by low income population,
where there is public interest in promoting housing programs involving upgrading and land, urbanistic and legal regularization, aiming at the improvement of life quality of the inhabitants and their integration to the urban tissue.
*2 Comprises:
-Areas previously approved as SE-4 (vilas and favelas) not adopted as ZEIS-1 by the LPOUS.
-Vilas and existing housing states, not previously recognized as SE-4, or as ZEIS by the present legislation.
- Areas defined by the 91/96 IBGECensus as vilas and favelas.
*3 ZEIS-3: regions where social interest housing estates were
builtbefore 1993 by the municipal government, and URBEL is responsible for them.
*4 Housing estates built after 1993, in construction or planned to be
Belo Horizonte
Before and after
VILA MÃE DOS POBRES – BECO SÃO JOAQUIM – BELO HORIZONTE
Periods and regularization
PERIOD IDENTIFYED
PLOTS APPROVED PLOTS CONTRACTS PROPERTY ISSUED BENEFITED FAMILIES 1986/1992 6.918 6.120 4.929 4.929 1993/2000 4.317 3.041 2.730 4.191 2000/2007 9.118 6.806 4.060 7.857 TOTAL 20.353 15.967 11.719 16.977 SOURCE: URBEL/DRC/DVRF/2007
• Total population in ZEIS 1 and 3 is 498.642 people.
• Average people per household is 4,6.
• Estimated 15,66% of ZEIS dwellers were reached by the land regularization program. • Estimated 10,08% of ZEIS households titled (property contracts issued)
Before and after the painting of houses
Source: Laender, 2008.
PANORAMA GERAL
PROGRAMA MINHA CASA MINHA VIDA - PMCMVUrban political ecology
• Rise of environmental concerns in urban studies
• Urban and environmental policies - different
trajectories, different logics, common tools
• Reafirming nature within urbanization
• Ontological turn – looking at urbanization through
water
• Blue-green infrastructure
• Urban agriculture, health and food security
• Urban commons
N. Senhora da Piedade - DRENURBS
Blue green infrastructure
Metropolitan plan
Concepts of the blue-green weft
Built and natural spaces
Structure
Paths
Conection
Potencial Estruturador da Trama Verde-Azul
Espaços Construídos e Espaços Naturais
• A naturalização do espaço metropolitano
Espaço Natural – Solos, vegetação, corpos d’água, fauna - o verde-azul
• valorização do natural no espaço construído
Potencial Estruturador da Trama Verde-Azul
Continuidade / Conectividade
• Relação virtuosa entre espaços naturais e construídos
O Local e o Metropolitano
• Articulação / integração entre tempos / espaços – escalas: espaciais, sociais, econômicas
Potencial de Integração da Trama Verde-Azul
A dimensão geográfica, ambiental
Grandes equipamentos de cultura
Manifestações culturais Paisagens
Potencial de Integração da Trama Verde-Azul
Transportes Multimodais
Dirimir Riscos Naturais Ecoturismo
Potencial de Integração da Trama Verde-Azul
• integrar corredores
ecológicos na estrutura
metropolitana
• usos múltiplos
• diferentes níveis de acesso,
desde UCs de uso restrito
até parques urbanos
• áreas de lazer, esporte e
outras
• estabelecer uma diretriz
para o território e ao
mesmo tempo sinalizar e
promover usos alternativos
Google Earth. Março/201 5.
● Population totale de la RMBH: 4.883.970
● Population urbaine: 4.792.091 ● Population rurale: 91.879
Source: Censo Demográfico, IBGE, 2010
● 7.672 établissements agricole dans la RMBH
● 5.151 (67,1%) – agriculture familiale ● 2.521 (32,9%) - agriculture
non-familial.
Source: Censo Agropecuário, IBGE, 2006
Urban agriculture demographics
RMBH
2012 - 2.056 family
growers recognized by
public policies
Source: Ministério de Desenvolvimento Agrário (MDA).
Urban agriculture demographics
RMBH
Cartography of the agricultural practices in 13
municipalities of RMBH
Feira Raízes do Campo.
Comercialização de produtos
agroecológicos em Jaboticatubas. Jaboticatubas, 2014.
Capim Branco se destacava pela produção de alho, mas hoje “transita” para a produção diversificada de orgânicos para o mercado de Belo Horizonte. 2014.
Criação de aves em ocupação urbana.
Belo Horizonte, 2013.
Centro de Vivência Agroecológico (CEVAE). Belo Horizonte, 2014.
Criação de aves em quintal produtivo.
Horta em escola municipal. Santa Luzia, 2012.
Horta em escola particular. Nova Lima, 2014.
Horta em escola estadual. Belo Horizonte, 2007. Olericultura orgânica. Nova Lima, 2014. Associação de apicultores. Nova Lima, 2014. Olericultura orgânica. Raposos, 2014.
