Questioning historicals: The Ouro Preto-MG preservation policy under the bias of national urban planning

Abstract

A problematic context due to questionable trends and postures, among which the hegemony of the discourse of an urban elite inherited from the colonial period, added to the rapid growth of cities due to their economic importance, mark the formation of Planning National Urban. At first, through the performance of the Estado Novo, a political group in which modernist intellectuals stood out, the field in formation carried its ideas, such as the posture of modernization and especially the search for the construction of national identity. This phase also coincides with the beginning of the national preservation policy and the recognition of the first Brazilian heritage property, the city of Ouro Preto. Contradictions that lead us to ask: what are the impacts of urban planning on the preservation policies of Ouro Preto, given that the fields were formed almost simultaneously and the city was the first heritage of an urban scale recognized in Brazil? Our questioning is based on the fact that there are no local references or examples to follow and many of the procedures conforming guidelines that are still in use. Therefore, we aim to present the impacts of national urban planning on the preservation policies of the city.