REQUALIFICAÇÃO URBANA NO CENTRO HISTÓRICO DE BOA ESPERANÇA MG: proposta de um Complexo Cultural

Abstract

This work, whose theme is in the area of Urban Rehabilitation, consists of the study of the decentralization process of the Historic Center of the city of Boa Esperança - MG, and has as proposal an architectural and urbanistic project that involves the implantation of a Cultural Complex as integrating element of the original nucleus of the city. With this, it is intended to strengthen the identity and the tourist and cultural character related to the Historical Center of the municipality. Due to the urbanization process in Brazil, many cities - such as Boa Esperança - have grown and developed in an unplanned way and this leads to urban processes such as decentralization that, although it is a natural process of growth of cities often leads to forgetting the relations between past and present, with the abandonment or underutilization of the historical areas of urban space. The relations of identity and memory of the place with its inhabitants are lost, and this reflects in the architecture, in the urban dynamics and in the production and uses of the place as a whole, leading to the degradation of spaces. From this problem, the present research proposes a study of solutions to reverse the consequences that the decentralization has caused in the city.