CREATIVE CITIES AND TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT: BELO HORIZONTE CREATIVE CAPITAL OF GASTRONOMY
Creative Cities; Culture; Development; Gastronomy; Planning; Public Policy; Territory.
Over the last decade and a half, the creative city has emerged as a result of the post-industrial era, in which the need for cities to reinvent themselves based on a strategic relationship with creativity, substantially with the creative industry and the economy creative. Starting from this need, the formulation of this expression was born in the appreciation of social and cultural assets, that is, in the appreciation of art, culture and innovation, through which it is possible to generate economic and territorial development. The United Nations, through UNCTAD and UNESCO, in the first years of the second millennium incorporated these initiatives, asserting the importance of the urban environment ordered by creativity. The result of this action was embodied in the consecration of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, in 2004, which established the commitment to invest in creativity and culture as strategic factors for urban development. This work aims to understand, in the dynamics of creative cities, which use culture and social assets as an urban management strategy, the relationship between the construction of a territorial identity and its confluence with the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. Strictly speaking, it aims to support the contextual goal of the recent election of the city of Belo Horizonte, in the State of Minas Gerais, as the creative capital of gastronomy. In this context, the work aims to understand, through a diagnosis of the Belo Horizonte gastronomic scene, the interfaces in territorial development, as well as the way in which identities, which are constructed from elements, cultural and productive expressions of each territory, are factors that support the development of externalities of agglomeration and the consequent cultural active clusters in the realization of a creative city. In fact, this discussion aims to establish guidelines for territorial development through public policies and tourist actions.