Geodesign Facing the Urgency of Reducing Poverty: The Cases of Belo Horizonte
Lívia de Oliveira Monteiro,
Ana Clara Mourão Moura,
Camila Marques Zyngier,
Ítalo Sousa Sena,
Priscila Lisboa de Paula
Affiliations
Lívia de Oliveira Monteiro
Prefeitura Municipal de Belo Horizonte
SMPU - Secretaria Municipal de Política Urbana
Ana Clara Mourão Moura
Escola de Arquitetura
Laboratório de Geoprocessamento
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Camila Marques Zyngier
PhD and Graduated in Architecture and Urbanism at the School of Architecture of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). Postdoctoral Graduate Fellow at the Institute of Geosciences of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). Professor at the Architecture and Urbanism course at Instituto Metodista Izabela Hendrix. Currently researching topics: Geodesign, geoinformation and geovisualization applications for analysis and participation in urban planning.
Ítalo Sousa Sena
Member of Geoprocessing Laboratory, School of Architecture, Federal University of Minas Gerais
PhD Student in Geoscience Institute, Federal University of Minas Gerais
Priscila Lisboa de Paula
Member of Geoprocessing Laboratory, School of Architecture, Federal University of Minas Gerais
Student in the School of Architecture, Federal University of Minas Gerais
Belo Horizonte, as well as other Brazilian cities, takes the challenge to attend the urgency of reducing poverty in precarious settlements. The Municipality has a kind of informal settlements, that were resulted from orchestrated urban recent movements and that are inhabited by low-income families. They are called “urban occupations”. These areas, classified in Belo Horizonte’s Mater Plan as Areas of Special Social Interests, need significant actions to plan and carry out structuring interventions for urban and legal regularization. Methods had to be tested to construct a new way to develop these areas, because they present latent dynamics and redraw over themselves several times. Geodesign methodology was used to organize tables of discussion, co-creation of ideas and composition of proposals through consensus by approximation.DOI: https://doi.org/10.20365/disegnarecon.20.2018.6
