A Estrutura Fundiária como Documento Da/Na Cidade: A cobrança Do Imposto Territorial Urbano em Carangola/MG

Abstract

The Brazilian land structure demonstrates that the concentration of land constitutes Brazilian territorial formation and urbanization. Thus, we assume a theoretical perspective that understands the land structure itself as a document that highlights the socio-historical nature of these processes. We aim to discuss this structure based on the private appropriation of land and the production of cities in the context of the first decades of the 19th century, particularly investigating the city of Carangola-MG. This time frame involves intense urban transformations resulting from the production and sale of coffee, which potentially changed the real estate dynamics there. For the analysis, we chose information such as the number of urban properties on which territorial and property taxes were levied, as well as owners, values and debts linked to these assets. We compiled data from notebooks and newspapers available at the Carangola Municipal Museum. The results help to understand the urbanization process in Carangola and Zona da Mata in Minas Gerais; and, they embody a reading that understands the land structure as a material record and a document that appears in today's landscape of the dispossession that constituted (and still constitutes) land property in Brazilian cities.