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Territorial Planning in Brazil: An Interpretation Based on the Ideas of Milton Santos

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This text discusses how Milton Santos’s work provides elements to understand two major distinct phases of territorial planning policies in Brazil. The first major phase, which lasted approximately half a century, until the late 1980s, is analyzed from the deconstruction of the theoretical foundations provided by the so-called ‘regional science’; the second, extending from the 1990s to the present day, is interpreted based on the concepts Santos has developed for understanding globalization. Despite the differences in the logic of these two phases, there are continuities of traits.

Luís Angelo dos S. Aracri, Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil; Email: luis.aracri@ufjf.edu.br.

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    Territorial planning is considered in this text as a coordinated set of policies for the spatial redistribution of investments, resources, public services, infrastructure and revenues. It is a tool of ordering and management of the territorial distribution of economic and demographic growth, and (in principle) social welfare and environmental preservation.

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dos S. Aracri, L.A. (2017). Territorial Planning in Brazil: An Interpretation Based on the Ideas of Milton Santos. In: Melgaço, L., Prouse, C. (eds) Milton Santos: A Pioneer in Critical Geography from the Global South . Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53826-6_7

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