Sheyla Aguilar de Santana, Gerson José Freire Mattos and Roberto Monte-Mor on "The identification and characterization of postmodern cities in a globalized world: a case study of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil"

1. THE IDENTIFICATION AND
CHARACTERIZATION OF
POSTMODERN CITIES IN A
GLOBALIZED WORLD: A CASE STUDY
OF BELO HORIZONTE,MINAS
GERAIS, BRAZIL
Sheyla Aguilar de Santana
Gerson José Freire Mattos
Roberto Monte-Mor

2. 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.

3. 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 affecting
the temporal and spatial understanding of social
events.

4. 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 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

5. 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 to
foreign capital

6. Although the reproduction of the dynamics of the
process of social fragmentation based
on capital, a new urban ethnic, composed of the
new reality of growing division of money
and poverty, race and
power, immigration, ethnicity is evident in the
city.
Such processes are linked to increasing urban
poverty, the appearances of new polarities and
new way of segregation and exclusion, racial
tension growing explosion in crime, lack of social
services and deteriorating infrastructure

7. South zone
Cental area
Pericenter
Industrial area
Periphery
Pampulha

8. APA SOUTH EXPANSION
Development of centralities of large areas
for specialized services and industry,
Horizontal condominiums - Displacement of rich
people
Investment policies and actions that create
or intend to meet the needs of
businessmen, tourists or residents -
Citymarketing.

9. 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.

10. 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

11. 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.

13. 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.
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.

14. 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, high
income areas of investment in public service
and commercial establishments (food
shops, boutiques,entertainment, information
centers) that tend to dominate the territory.

15. 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,

16. 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
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.