Avaliacao da Expansao da Infraestrutura em Esgotamento Sanitario na Mancha Conurbada da Regiao Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte: 2000 A 2010
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Community and regional planning is a professional field of study aimed at assessing the ever-changing socioeconomic and physical environments of our communities and planning for their future. Planners evaluate and seize opportunities to understand and solve problems. Most planners work at the local level, but they are concerned with issues that affect the world: the preservation and enhancement of the quality of life in a community, the protection of the environment, the promotion of equitable economic opportunity; and the management of growth and change of all kinds.
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The Department of Community and Regional Planning was established in 1978 when it was split from the Department of Landscape Architecture and Community Planning.
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1978–present
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- Department of Landscape Architecture and Community Planning (predecessor, 1978)
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The Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region (RMBH), Brazil, encompasses 34 municipalities. Currently, 19 out of the 34 municipalities are contiguously connected, forming an enormous urban area of 1,716 km2 with approximately 4.3 million inhabitants, representing 80 percent of the total regional population. The main objective of this paper is to identify areas within the conurbation RMBH that should have priority with regards to receiving investments for sewer infrastructure expansion. The methodology combines remote sensing, raster analysis, and Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA). The results pointed out that sewer infrastructure investments were small in areas that have experienced high urbanization during 2000-2010. The large majority of investments took places in areas within RMBH that were already occupied but were lacking sewer infrastructure, which may be related to the infrastructure defi cit that RMBH is experiencing. The decision-making process of resource allocation for sewer infrastructure may benefi t from the spatial analysis developed in this article
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This is an article from Brazilian Journal of Cartography, Carvalho, G.A., Mourão Moura, A.C., Haddad, M.A.. “Evaluation of the Expansion of the Infrastructure in Sanitary Sewage in the Conchembed Stain of the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte: 2000 A 2010”, , 68(1); pg. 163-179. Posted with permission.