34 Cities and One Reality

The metropolitan regions are shaped by many cities that share services, equipment, opportunities but also problems that go beyond the municipalities’ borders, affecting neighbor localities or even a whole region. Therefore, the search for local level solutions shows itself insufficient. The metropolitan land use and occupation planning is one of the main subjects to require shared common solutions. The Macrozoning is one of the tools to stand up to this among many other challenges, in the aim of a more fair and sustainable territorial organization.

Did you know?

Established in 1973, the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte was formerly composed by 14 municipalities and 1.7 million inhabitants. Today it is Brazil’s third largest urban agglomeration and contains approximately 5 million inhabitants in its 34 municipalities.

The PDDI:

The Metropolitan Plan of Integrated Development, prepared between 2009 and 2010 to be a reference in metropolitan planning to the 34 cities in the next decades, has the Macrozoning as one of its extensions of participative metropolitan planning started by the PDDI-RMBH.