THE IDENTIFICATION AND

CHARACTERIZATION OF

POSTMODERN CITIES IN A

GLOBALIZED WORLD: A CASE STUDYGLOBALIZED WORLD: A CASE STUDY

OF BELO HORIZONTE,MINAS

GERAIS, BRAZIL

Sheyla Aguilar de Santana

Gerson José Freire Mattos

Roberto Monte-Mor

GOAL

� This study seeks to understand the reorganization of

space from the restructuring of typical urban-regional

characteristics of an urban metropolitan area, the

post-urban metropolis.

� In Belo Horizonte, we have the typical model of

occupation that is: center ->periphery. The

farther from the central area, the lower the financial

condition of the population.

� The approaches to the study of postmoderns

cities applied by EDWARD SOJA was based in

cities and regions out of Brazil. In it, Soja

highlights globalization as an important stage in

the process of transformation of space affectingthe process of transformation of space affecting

the temporal and spatial understanding of social

events.

� Four of the six speeches of Soja are

present within the metropolitan region of Belo

Horizonte as a post-metropolis are:

� Exopolis - the city being overrun by

industry implodes and explodes on itsindustry implodes and explodes on its

centrality in the form of the surrounding urban

area.

� Fractal cities

� Simulacro - city show for attraction of foreign

capital

� Carceral Archipelago - massive presence

of condominiun

� You can see some significant changes that

reforce the formation of a more fragmented social

space as a result of urbanization, exclusion

and segregation history beyond

the practical urban policies to promote the city tothe practical urban policies to promote the city to

foreign capital

� Although the reproduction of the dynamics of theprocess of social fragmentation basedon capital, a new urban ethnic, composed of thenew reality of growing division of moneyand poverty, race andand poverty, race andpower, immigration, ethnicity is evident in the

city.

Such processes are linked to increasing urbanpoverty, the appearances of new polarities andnew way of segregation and exclusion, racialtension growing explosion in crime, lack of socialservices and deteriorating infrastructure

� South zone

� Cental area

� Pericenter

� Industrial area

� Periphery

� Pampulha

APA SOUTH EXPANSION

� Development of centralities of large areas

for specialized services and industry,

� Horizontal condominiums - Displacement of rich

peoplepeople

Investment policies and actions that create

or intend to meet the needs of

businessmen, tourists or residents -

Citymarketing.

STRENGTHENING OF SETTLEMENT

� Scattered in the territory in areas of high and low

income. Only six neighborhood in Belo

Horizonte are more than 300 meters away from a

slum area

� Public policies for this

population. Vila Viva Program.

VECTOR EXPANSION FOR NORTH

� Investments for the placement of Belo

Horizonte in the process of

economic restructuring and globalization to

give visibility to the investment of foreign capital.

Case does not cover the integration

of marginalized populations

OTHER URBAN DINAMICS

� Another remarkable factor that goes in the

direction of SOJA’s discourse is the emergence

of social groups throughout the territory by

creating a heterogeneous mosaic.

� this group is not divided only from income,

education, and ethnic, but other factors are also

beginning to be part of the division, such as

labor and gender.

� This speech, fractal city, can be

widely realized from the map below.

� Used as social groups to definition a foundation

in Brazil: the industrial proletariat, people that

descend of Africans, religious groups (besides

Catholics and evangelicals), foreigners

and immigrants.and immigrants.

Are positioned in places

where residents predominantly operates dynamic

sectors of the economy - the tertiary sector,

with informal jobs, areas of medium / high

poverty and average education.

� In other areas where there is a low presence

of social groups is noticeable factors such

as rising land values or high, people whose

profession is in public sector / military

or scientific technical, highly educated, highor scientific technical, highly educated, high

income areas of investment in public service

and commercial establishments (food

shops, boutiques,entertainment, information

centers) that tend to dominate the territory.

� Belo Horizonte is marked with a space re-

organization of urban socioeconomic and which

characterizes it as an urban

fractalized area with principles of all

the speeches of Soja,the speeches of Soja,

� Belo Horizonte is an area with evidence of post-

modern discourses as:

� globalized space with the massive presence of social

groups that take some professions before destinated for the

native population of low-income

� arisings from the industrial areas who seek for new� arisings from the industrial areas who seek for new

tecnologies informations for economic development makes

it necessary skilled and specialized labor

� the search for condominiums by the high-income

population,

� public policies aimed

� creating cities spectacles, simulacra, to attract foreign

capital,

� the spatial diffusion of all classes of social stratification,

investments for social integration.