Descentralização intraurbana em Juiz de Fora: surgimento e consolidação do subcentro de Benfica

Abstract

The internal structure of cities reflects the actions in the past that are in progress in the present. The actions of the past have left marks that associated with transformations of contemporaneity bring us the need of understanding this dialectical movement of changes and continuities in the (re)production of the intra-urban space. In order to study the dynamics that take place in the hierarchy of the intra-urban space in Juiz de Fora - MG we propose the analysis of the "expansion" of the main city center through decentralization of urban services and economic activities to other areas, making the subcentres arise. We understand that for the study of urban structure it is necessary to understand the centrality of the city in the urban chain if we want to understand its intra-urban structure represented by the binomial center/subcentre. Therefore, our proposal is to study the process of decentralization in the scale of intra-urban analysis and its relation to the emergence and consolidation of Benfica and its role as "subcentre" exercising influence over a hinterland of over 110 000 inhabitants.