The Governador Valadares urban heritage: some aspects

Abstract

In our days, the cities, as all the rest go through significant transformations. Intrinsic transformations to its proper definition and direction, and others related to the expectations and claims around them. The defended idea is that the transformations happen in two- ways: from one side, a sense (way) of an expansion, in extension; from the other side, a return, to the sense (way) of polis. This double movement of extension and return is related to new values of the urban, mainly, the right to the city. We think the right to the city includes the right to the urban heritage, the sustainable development and social justice. In this sense, we think the careful of the urban heritage is a new urban question, which adds some of the cities old problems. Then, it needs researches, analysis and some alternatives. This paper intends to suggest some aspects about the right to the city, from the discussion of the urban heritage question in Governador Valadares city.