Expansão urbana e sustentabilidade: análise do setor leste de Uberlândia, MG

Abstract

This research aimed to comprehend the relations between urban expansion and sustainability. Thus, a multidisciplinary reflection concerning sustainable development and urban sustainability was accomplished and also an overview of how urban expansion is linked to quality of life within the cities, highlighting the new trends of this movement which integrates urban planning and environmental preservation. For that, a brief assessment of the historical and socioeconomic trends of Uberlandia was made, so later we could analyze the evolution of the city urban growth and, then, confront the theoretical reflections on urban sustainability with the urban growth patterns of the east side of the city. Furthermore, through a previously spatial definition and field study, the work pointed some parameters of urban sustainability in the urban expansion front of the east side of Uberlandia, Minas Gerais.