Socioeconomic and environmental impacts on the local population around a road intervention in Juiz de Fora/MG

Abstract

The implementation of a highway in a consolidated urban area promoted several socioeconomic and environmental impacts in the so-called Cidade Alta, in Juiz de Fora/MG. It critically analyzes and presents the inherent impacts of the construction of the BR-440 highway, as well as its course in the various municipal plans that it was included, from its conception in 1978 to the last urban plan, of 2018. It discusses how local urban planning is affected by changes in its propositions that translate into impacts on the population in their daily lives and quality of life. It is concluded that the lack of inclusion of society in decisions that directly affect it was the common practice of urban plans in Juiz de Fora even before the elaboration of the last urban plan.

Keywords:
Socioeconomic impacts; urban planning; highway; BR-440