OF THE VALUATION OF THE SPACE TO THE ARTICULATED SPALLING OF THE URBAN TERRITORY: THE HISTORICAL CITY STOPS BEYOND THE LIMITS OF THE FALLING - THE DIAMANTINA (MG) CASE

Abstract

At the beginning of century XXI, Diamantina, a singular territorial enclave of the 700th mining, in Brazil, located in the hinterland of Minas Gerais, lives the amazing logic of the expansion of the capitalism and selectivity of the capital, that after inserts it in the eddy of the international tourism the conquest of the seal of UNESCO (that it raises it the Cultural Heritage of the Humanity) and of the implantation of the controversial Monumenta Program (BID/Federative Republic/City). Then, this article presents, objectively, the reflections developed in recent research in the area of the Urban Geography, that had as in case that analytical Diamantina, and it has for objective pointing with respect to the urgency of if treating the called Brazilian historical cities, as much in boardings of scientific research how much in the practical one of the urban territorial planning, while inserted in the totality world. It’s necessary to consider the historical city in the ample urban territory locks up that it, that is, defends its “survival” while totality filled by the capitalist logic of the global market and the “perpetuation” of its inhabitants, in front of a world that lives the empire of the spalling of the places for urban the actions that demands a quick thought of governments. So, to focus the historical cities stops beyond the limits of the falling - either in scientific research, either in the practical one of its planning - consist in potential instrument of minimizing the impacts of the dialectic of the destructive construction that involves the Brazilian historical cities in the current capitalism phase, and inducing to the democratization (utopia?) of the world cultural goods.