The social reproduction of the space of Minas Gerais, into the context of urban-industrial modernization in Brazil, was one of its main production bases of the new state capital, Belo Horizonte. But, comply whith the functions assigned to the new capital required to engender other strategic actions by the state, to the extent that there were limits an antagonisms to overcome. That, in large measure, threatened the very uniqueness of the regions in the form of state was in addition to its industrial modernization inserted in land Brazilian accommodate the diverse interests and political disputes. The objective this is to reflection about how the (re)production as a metropolis Belo Horizonte, to substantiating the modernization urban-industrial, for it, guaranteed the unity of reproduction regional state of Minas Gerais.
Modernization; regional development; industrialization; urban restructuring