Cultural heritage in metropolitan territories: new contributions for your understanding

Abstract

The Metropolitan Region of Campinas (RMC), whose main city is Campinas, is formed by a group of medium and small cities, where the relations of identity and belonging are no longer established within municipal boundaries, with emphasis on the occurrence of a network of social relations closely connected to the specialization / concentration of activities in the territory. There is a similarity in the processes of physical constitution, the social fabric and the current dynamics of cities that interweave, in a complex and diachronic way, a variety of cultural references (material and immaterial). This led to the hypothesis that the understanding of a set of cities aligned by vectors of growth and expansion in the region, historically constituted, would enable new perspectives for the discussion of cultural heritage. In this article, the results of the study of one of the seven vectors are presented, where it was possible to reveal a new structure based on the relations of identity and belonging and their associated cultural references.