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1 Belo Horizonte s new Master Plan Nature, Resilience and Sustainability-based solutions Maria Fernandes Caldas Secretary of Urban Policies Belo Horizonte City Council Minas Gerais - Brazil July, 2018

2 Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais, Brazil Belo Horizonte was founded in 1897 São Paulo Belo Horizonte 2,5mi inhabitant s Brasília Rio de Janeiro Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region 5,2mi inhabitant Its average density is 7,176 inhab/km² Human Development Index (HDI) 0.84 Area 331km² 4º Brazilian Municipa l GDP 66% Trade & Services

3 New Master Plan s proposals CA = 1,0 Recovery of real estate value for investments in centralities and social housing. ( outorga do direito de construir / right to grant costly duild / created soil) Districts growth defined from the SUPPORT CAPACITY (infraestructure installed) Reservation of areas for production and regularization of SOCIAL HOUSING (special zoning) More permissive special zoning and reserve of areas close to metropolitan articulation axes for BIG EQUIPMENTS AND INDUSTRIES Densification directed to CORRIDORS AND CENTRALITIES ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION AND RECOVERY conected and distributed in the territory

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5 Plans and Actions Sustainable Energy Selo BH Sustentável 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Measured GHGs : CO2, CH4 and N2O

6 Sustainable Transportoriented development BRT : public transportation corridors Reduce the need for long distance commuting, aiming to reduce automotive vehicles displacements and giving preference for walking and public transport displacements. Trade and services decentralization

7 Qualified Neighbourhood Unit Conformation of public enjoyment areas, contiguous spaces to the public space destined to the expansion of green areas and to the creation of squares for collective use. Conformation of neighbourhood units for the access of every citizen to their daily demands, walking, cycling or by the combination of these displacements with the public transport.

8 Sustainability Factor Stimulate sustainable construction practices. minimum permeable and vegetated area, implanted in natural terrain, in all Requirement of enterprises.

9 Environmental structure Protection areas and green connections 64 PA1 Areas of high environmental and landscape protection, aiming the environmental preserve and recovery. 930 km Green Connections Green connections between preservation and conservation areas, or open spaces for public use. PA2 PA3 28 km² Protection Possibility of compatibilization of environmental attributes with occupation and use. 94 = 11,9 km² areas of bottom of valleys connections of the bottom of the valleys with quality restauration of the water course, intervention in preservation areas and formation of linear parks.

10 Bottom of valleys connections Drenurbs/Sources - Sub-bacia do córrego Nossa Senhora da Piedade Park protection of bottom of valleys with large environmental sanitation restoration of the quality of the watercourses intervention in preservation areas for the creation of linear parks

11 Green Connections Forested Corridors afforestation of streets and front setbacks of edifications connection between preservation areas or open spaces for public use enlargement of green areas along centralities Parque Linear José Cândido da Silveira Fonte: PBH Área central de Belo Horizonte Fonte: Google

12 Green Connections Corredores Agroecológicos Participative AgroEnvironmental Planning Agrobio diversity Agroecology Urban Agriculture Agro-forestry systems

13 ADEs Environmental Interest higher permeability rates in consolidated areas more afforestation and natural dreinage areas environmental quality in ocuppied areas 189 = 25 km² ADEs of Environmental Interest

14 ADEs Environmental Interest ADE Izidora sustainable consolidation of the existing precarious settlements Ocupação Esperança m² 2500 families Ocupação Rosa Leão m² 1000 families 10,13 km² total area families 1,55 km² occupied pact with the local comunity Ocupação Vitória m² 3500 families production protection of the big environmental relevance areas sustainable urbanization compatible with environmental attributes

15 Challenges main Territory disconnected from the urban nucleus of the capital Extreme environmental relevance Great possibilities for expanding occupations because they are surrounded by vacant plots Accelerated transformation dynamics

16 Urban Project sustainable sustainable consolidation of existing settlements protection production of areas of great environment al importance protected areas environmental relevanceassociated with food security projects, through agro-ecological production and extraction in existing forests, to generate income for the local community union with the local community innovation in policies aimed at precarious settlements with implantation of sustainable technologies and strategies related to the generation of local and renewable energy (solar energy), water reuse, electric transport, among others

17 Actions in progress Sustainable Territories Izidora Mapping of headwaters to build an environmental recovery program Participatory agro-environmental mapping Technical training workshops for the residents and joint effort of setting up agroforestry gardens Consolidation of the Agroecological and Environmental Forum in Izidora

18 Thanks! Any Questions? prefeitura.pbh.gov.br/politica-urbana

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