Temporalities and Spatialities in the Process of Productive Restructuring of Urban Space in a Thermal Aquifer Recharge Zone in the Municipality of Poços de Caldas (MG)

Abstract

This article deals with the dynamics of the process of verticalized urban occupation in the hydromineral resort of Poços de Caldas (MG), with regard to urban practices of spatialization of the city from the perspective of urban productive restructuring. It attempts to make the urban environment and territory visible in its complexity, as a result of the links between social, economic and political processes. Social awareness of its existence makes it possible to guarantee the preservation of natural living spaces through efficient environmental management. It is based on a transdisciplinary methodology, using the geographic and temporal scale as a methodological concept, to understand urban morphology based on the guidelines proposed by the Master Plan. It concludes that the city, as a product, expresses in the urban territory a geography of capital accumulation, a practice that leads to environmental degradation, causing unbalance in the urban environment,in particular, urban rivers and hot springs.