Urban morphology of Janaúba city/MG

Abstract

Morphology contributes to studies on cities, particularly those interested in understanding conformation and functionality. A major importance is to highpoint the connection between natural and social agents in landscape formation. Thus, this study aims to analyze urban morphology of Janaúba city / MG. As specific purposes: detail the local urban structure, by identifying its site and fabric; contribute to local and regional urban studies; exemplify a methodological set that can be developed in other places of the North of Minas Gerais. Applied methodology based on local urban site geosystemic analysis, emphasized the climatic, geomorphological, hydrological and vegetative aspects, identified and zoned urban fabric, according to Amorim Filho (2005) model. Results indicate that the natural representation of the city was and is a positive intervening agent of organization and expansion of the city; fabric, in its conformation, is oriented by the presence of public equipments, with strong influence of the thoroughfare. Model categories were recognized, but singularities were recorded. From the results, traces of economic and demographic advances were identified, associated to the lack of urban planning, resulting in a structure, in part, unstable.