Production of the space and urban land valorization: a study about the land valorization in Ibituruna, western zone of the city of Montes Claros / MG

Abstract

The action of different agents, driven by diverse interests, produces and transform the urban space throughout the social and capital production. The outstanding characteristic of urban sprawl is the idea of the mutability of the space, which happens through the multiple uses of the land that allow the emergence of different ways of the urban land valorization. In the intermediate city of Montes Claros / MG this process has progressed since the end of the twentieth century, causing a growing valorization of its urban land. Consequently, the present article analyzes the production of the urban space in Montes Claros - MG, emphasizing the urban land development, based on the social and economic production process in Ibituruna, an allotment located in the western part of the city.The methodology of the paper consisted of: bibliographic analysis, exploratory research and iconographic records, collection of economic data of the urban land in the Municipality of Montes Claros, which are the values for calculating the Property Tax of the Urban Territory (IPTU), as well as researches at the digital map library. The results were organized in spreadsheets and systematized for the elaboration of maps in the program ArcGIS. In addition, representation by satellite image Word View (2014) were superimposed on the Urban Perimeter of Montes Claros, by using the shapefile tool. Thus, we can conclude that Ibituruna remains in a constant valorization process, which denotes the heterogeneity of the neighborhood, showing different dynamics, landscapes, products and values of the urban land in the same allotment.