Cidade ocupada

Abstract

This paper discusses the urban occupations Dandara, Eliana Silva and Emanuel Kaiowá occurred in the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte (RMBH) between the years 2009 and 2013. Shall present social movements involved in these political actions, its inhabitants, institutions, society and issues of social inequality as well as the role of professionals in architecture and urbanism. Occupations to be analyzed and compared are not the fruit of spontaneous actions of people but acts organized by social movements, which work with political perspectives guided by Marxist theories. The residents of these occupations are representatives of structural rabble and during the occupation manifest provisions arising from their social trajectory. In Brazil there is the ideology of being this uneven and conflictfree society, institutions and the Brazilian societys usually criminalize and neutralize protests against this ideology, urban occupations are among those social events. In this paper will be presented and analyzed how institutionalized means and society in RMBH behaves facing a conflict as these urban occupations. Finally will be presented and reviewed the work of professionals in architecture and urbanism within the context of urban occupations demonstrating its contradictions as a field of knowledge marked by heteronomous practices.