As áreas verdes na metrópole do hinterland

Between the 1930s and 1940s, the expansion of the agricultural and demographic frontier to Central Brazil created zones dedicated to the production raw materials (hinterland) to supply agricultural goods to the "central" regions of the southeastern country.At the same time, the government sought to create urban centers in Central Brazil to integrate both the economy and culture of the time.Based on the creation of urban centers in the Brazilian hinterland in this period, this article proposes to analyze the city of Goiânia, the new capital of Goiás.Created in the 1930s, the city has historically been part of this project, being considered by the Estado Novo (1937-1945) as an urban symbol of the "March to the West" policy.Supported by the theoretical and methodological assumptions of urban and environmental history, we aim to analyze urban projects for green spaces in the new capital, and the transformations of these areas as a result of the land expansion of the original project.The results indicate that starting in the 1940s, progressive urbanism, which guided the creation of Goiânia, lost strength as the interests of speculative capital became more powerful and the State Government became less influential.These changes caused a reduction of green spaces and an expansion of land and properties that transformed the landscapes of the new capital of Goiás

Art · Geography · Humanities · Urban Arborization and Environmental Studies · Urban Development and Societal Issues

• Challenging the Environmental History of the Cerrado

  Open Access•Sandro Dutra E Silva•Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana…•2020

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