Urban Growth of Ouro Preto between 1950 and 2004 and Current Trends
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Abstract
From 1950 the city of Ouro Preto - MG, who until then lived a phase of decline, due to the depletion of gold, started the
economic recovery driven by industrialization, encouraging a return to the city population. The city center of political,
economic and educational evolved over physical conditions of very special importance, valleys and steep slopes, rocks
altered. The occupation without planning resulted in the imprudence of the technical methods of set construction and
proper use of the environment. The number of sites for construction are reduced, resulting in typical problems such
as illegal occupation of land and in areas of risk. This study aimed to map out the directions of population movements
during the five decades that followed the city of Ouro Preto, an area of 35 k². Aerial photographs were used to produce maps of the urban area of Ouro Preto, landform map and map of mining areas. The procedures indicated ten areas with
urban sprawl trends in the city. Were detected sectors that are able to expand while others must be controlled or even
banned, trying to contribute to the proposed zoning of the Master Plan and the Law of use and occupation of the city.
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