comparison between planning systems of Braazil and Portugal, focosing in two metropolitan regions

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This paper intends to draw a comparison between the planning system of Brazil and Portugal focusing in two metropolitan regions. The study case in Brazil is Belo Horizonte, capital city of Minas Gerais, the Brazil’s second biggest state in size. In Portugal the study will be focused in the metropolitan area of Porto, the Portugal’s second most important economic area. Those two countries were chosen for having a historic past together. And the choice of metropolitan regions has been made based on the likeness of economic importance for their respective country, rather than the similarity between the cities and its metropolitan region.
Firstly, the paper will draw a brief geographical picture of the regions, with some useful statistics for a better understanding of each. Secondly a quick view into the evolution of the urban planning policy of each country, together with a map of the hierarchy of the actual administrative planning structure of each. Then an analysis comparing how the policies are applied in each region, and if there is any specific policy for metropolitan regions in both countries.
Short geographic description
Belo Horizonte is a young city planned at the end of the 19th century, more precisely in 1897. The government of the Minas Gerais State put lots of efforts in building its infrastructure to attract industrial capital and to populate its new capital city (Costa, 2012). Its proximity to Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo and its diversified economy made the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte the third in size and forth biggest economic area of Brazil. The region is composed by 34 municipalities and almost 5 million inhabitants, being half of the population resident in Belo Horizonte (Costa, 2012).
Porto is a hist...

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...Minas Gerais State (Costa, 2012).
It shows that the identity of the Brazilian civil society is more cohesive and Brazilian politics are less disposed than Portuguese. Moreover, it proves that for the progress and development of any planning system depends on the synergy of both sectors of the society.
In conclusion, metropolitan regions are polycentric systems with disparities within it and require a spatial strategic governance module and collaboration among various sectors of the society in order to succeed (Marques, 2005).
The lesson that can be taken from this paper is that ‘metropolitan core cities are no islands and both affect and are influenced by what is occurring in their hinterland (Klink and Denaldi, 2011: 544). The national politics instability and dispersed civil society are the biggest obstruction for the success and progress of local development.

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