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12/Sep/2011
Carlos Aurélio Pimenta de Faria, Gustavo Gomes Machado
DOI: 10.1590/1981-3891201100020005
The aim of this article is to analyse the process of expansion of the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Area, created in 1973 with 14 municipalities, which today comprises 34 municipalities, making it the second largest MA in Brazil. After the redemocratization, more specifically after the promulgation of the State Constitutions in the late 1980s, several new metropolitan areas were created in the country, and all nine MAs instituted in the early 1970s increased their number of member municipalities, in a context […]
Keywords: Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Area; Constitution of the state of Minas Gerais; federalism; intergovernmental relations; Metropolitan management