Do caminho novo a Manchester Mineira: as dinâmicas sócio-espaciais da gênese e evolução do município de Juiz de Fora no contexto regional da Zona da Mata Mineira

Abstract

The present research work materializes the concern to understand the historical and geographical characteristics processes related to the incorporation of production and development of urban space in the city of Juiz de Fora – MG. We evaluate the conformation of social relations, political and economic, reflexes of different production cycles that marked the historical evolution of the city. Located in the southern portion of Zona da Mata Mineira, the city appears on the margins of the road that connected the mining regions of the interior of the Province of Minas Gerais to the colony's capital city Rio de Janeiro, assuming from the early days of its occupation, the rate of growth and own identity. Incorporated into the model agricultural exporting coffee, the city is born, grows and develops capitalist, experimenting in the nineteenth century, fast industrial growth accompanied by intensive development of various urban infrastructure and the tertiary sector. We seek therefore to analyze the formation and socio-spatial city on the bias of the development of capitalist mode of production. We base to rescue both the economic and social history proposing the analysis of regional landscapes preterit to provide subsidies that contribute to the understanding of different forms of production and appropriation of space. Our job is to then work on synthesis and analytical reflection on the theory of the production of urban space and its formation of socio-spatial perspective on the capitalist mode of production, applied to the analysis of historical geography place.