Cidades médias e pequenas: transformações metropolitanas e novos critérios de reconhecimento e proteção para patrimônios dispersos

Abstract

The mid-sized and small cities of the Metropolitan Region of Campinas were subject to a socioeconomic and cultural change process starting in the 1980s, when the economic decentralization and the development drive to the interior of the state were intensified, resulting in the expansion of urban areas and the diffuse urbanization of the whole metropolitan area. These processes changed the identity and belongingness relationships of the inhabitants. This article discusses the necessity of new criteria for the identification and classification of the cultural heritage of the cities of the Region, characterized as "dispersed" and "diachronic", as well as reviewing existing preservation instruments in Brazil. The research is divided in two phases: an approach to the problem, in which two cities were taken as case study, and a second one in which it was possible to deepen the inter-scalar method of analysis and interpretation of the territory as a starting point for the reading of this heritage.