Dados is one of the most widely-read social sciences journals in Latin America. Created in 1966, it publishes innovative works, originating from academic research, by Brazilian and foreign authors. Edited by IESP-UERJ, it aims to reconcile scientific rigor and academic excellence with an emphasis on public debate based on the analysis of substantive issues of society and politics.
Dados vol. 24 n. 3 Rio de Janeiro 1981
Abstract
The end of the 19th. century and the first decades of the 20th. century were crucial periods in the history of contemporary Brazil. The country begun then its modernizing cycle through the progressive differentiation of productive and administrative structures. Coffee exports became a real instrument for the integration of Brazil into the international market from World War I onwards. State and entrepreneurial initiative, especially in São Paulo, were decisive for the creation of transport facilities for coffee planters. Minas Gerais suffers a deep transformation at the same time. The end of the gold mining cycle shifted the axis of regional production, weakening some power structures or changing the spatial locus of their support. A result of these changes was the State initiative of building a capital city in Brazil. Belo Horizonte is one of the most important political and historical events of this period. Brasília was later built based on that experience of public intervention in the realm of space planning. The three cases are illustrative of the interactions between space and politics. This paper seeks to reconstruct the decision-making process, emphasizing the role of the State as a catalyst of political will and as an entrepreneur investing social capital in the occupation of the territory and its transformation into an economically productive element.
A Modernização e o Planejamento Urbano Brasileiro no Século XIX
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