RIDE-DF (Integrated Development Region of the Federal District and Surroundings)

THE Integrated Development Region of the Federal District and Surroundings (RIDE) covers a large number of municipalities in the Federal District, Goiás and Minas Gerais. These municipalities are part of a area of ​​planning and generation of public policies common to them, in order to promote the development of their population.

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What is RIDE-DF?

RIDE is an area composed of more than 30 municipalities in Goiás and Minas Gerais, besides the Federal District. In this region there are municipalities with the most varied degrees of economic and social development and with various disparities. Thus, the creation of RIDE, in theory, supposes a integration between these municipalities so that such disparities and inequalities are reduced over the years.

Aerial view of Brasília, the main city on the RIDE.[1]

However, this is not what happens in practice, as many municipalities have a distant relationship from the federal capital, which is the main beneficiary of the actions implemented in RIDE. Some of the municipalities encompassed by the network have a metropolization relationship with

Brasilia, as they are closer to it, like Planaltina and Formosa, both in Goiás.

With this, by way of example, these municipalities end up attracting more resources for their public policies. Municipalities geographically distant from Brasília, such as Niquelândia (GO), do not develop in the same way. This is a downside of RIDE, but it can be easily fixed.

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Origin of RIDE-DF

According to the Federal Constitution (CF) of 1988, in your article 21, item IX, it is the function of the Union “to prepare and execute national and regional plans for territorial ordering and economic and social development”. O article 43 caput of the same document alleges that "for administrative purposes, the Union may articulate its action in a same geo-economic and social complex, aiming at its development and the reduction of inequalities regional”.

These CF articles were the basis for the creation of the RIDE, which emerged based on the Complementary Law 94/1998, promulgated on February 19, 1998, by the then president of the republic Fernando Henrique Cardoso. This law has eight articles and deals with the regulation and provision of RIDE in the local, regional and national scenario.

RIDE-DF Objectives

Among the main objectives of RIDE, we can highlight the need to carry out public policies together in the cities that are part of the region.

These policies are related to the generation of employment, income, public services and infrastructure; social development, basic sanitation, land use and occupation, transport and the road system, environmental protection and environmental pollution control; and they also concern health and social assistance, education and culture, combating the causes of poverty and factors of marginalization and public safety.

Monument in Brasília that honors the candangos, people who worked on the construction of the city in the 1950s. [2]

It is up to the Executive to create actions that encourage the prosperity of the RIDE municipalities, which can be done at the municipal, state and/or federal level, there may be an agreement between the three spheres government agencies.

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RIDE general data

Now let's look at some specific data about the states involved in the RIDE.

• Member cities: altogether, 33 cities and the Federal District, which has a different organization, are part of the RIDE, based on administrative regions. The cities are, in Goiás:

- Abbey

- Cold Water from Goiás

- Águas Lindas de Goiás

- Alexânia

- Alto Paraíso de Goiás

- North Dawn

- Tall clay

- Headboards

- Cavalcante

- Western City

- Cocalzinho de Goiás

- Corumbá de Goiás

- Crystalline

- Flowers of Goiás

- Beautiful

- Goianésia

- Luziania

- Mimoso de Goiás

- Nikeland

- New Range

- Father Bernard

- Pirenópolis

- Plateau

- St. Anthony of Discovered

- Saint John of the Alliance

- Simolandia

- Valparaiso de Goiás

- Vila Boa

- Propicious Village

In Minas Gerais:

- Arinos

- Buritis

- Large headboard

- Unai

• Area: all cities plus the territory of the Federal District cover an area of ​​approximately 94,500 km².
• Population: it is estimated that the population of RIDE, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE - 2010), or 4,560,000 people.

See now some selected data from all cities, in alphabetical order, according to IBGE. Data provided by the last census, in 2010.

City	Estimated population|1|	Municipal Human Development Index (IDHM)	Demographic density	GDP per capita|2|
Cities of Goiás
abbey	20,461 people	0,689	15.08 inhab/km	BRL 16,157.24
Cold Water from Goiás	5,793 people	0,671	2.51 inhab/km²	BRL 38,994.18
Beautiful Waters of Goiás	217,698 people	0,686	846.02 inhab/km²	R$ 9.108,33
alexânia	28,010 people	0,682	28.09 inhab/km²	BRL 29,187.12
Alto Paraíso de Goiás	7,688 people	0,713	2.65 inhab/km²	BRL 22,025.32
North Dawn	8,705 people	0,660	6.42 inhab/km²	R$ 13.768,81
Tall clay	11,408 people	0,742	7.97 inhab/km²	BRL 78,477.29
Headboards	8,046 people	0,668	6.52 inhab/km²	R$ 26.472,38
Cavalcante	9,725 people	0,584	1.35 inhab/km²	BRL 24,807.00
western city	72,890 people	0,717	143.38 inhab/km²	BRL 11,117.88
Cocalzinho de Goiás	20,504 people	0,657	9.73 inhab/km²	R$ 15.380,15
Corumbá de Goiás	11,169 people	0,680	9.76 inhab/km²	R$ 14.238,76
crystalline	60,210 people	0,699	7.56 inhab/km²	BRL 41,443.33
Goiás flowers	17,005 people	0,597	3.25 inhab/km²	BRL 9,092.34
Formosa	123,684 people	0,744	17.22 inhab/km²	R$ 19.918,60
Goianésia	71,075 people	0,727	38.49 inhab/km²	R$ 19.655,61
Luziania	211,508 people	0,701	44.06 inhab/km²	R$ 16.989,45
Mimoso de Goiás	2,583 people	0,665	1.94 inhab/km²	BRL 21,656.24
Nikeland	46,730 people	0,715	4.30 inhab/km²	BRL 21,803.69
New Range	117,703 people	0,684	487.29 inhab/km²	R$ 8.377,21
Father Bernard	34,430 people	0,651	8.81 inhab/km²	BRL 15,122.22
Pirenópolis	25,064 people	0,693	10.43 inhab/km²	R$ 16.657,36
plateau	90,640 people	0,669	32.10 inhab/km²	R$ 11.448,85
Santo Antônio do Discover	75,829 people	0,665	66.99 inhab/km²	BRL 9,088.44
Saint John of the Alliance	14,085 people	0,685	3.08 inhab/km²	BRL 23,653.84
simolandia	6,879 people	0,645	18.72 inhab/km²	R$ 14.272,95
Valparaiso de Goiás	172,135 people	0,746	2,165.48 inhab/km²	R$ 15.626,97
Vila Boa	6,312 people	0,647	4.47 inhab/km²	BRL 23,992.38
propitious village	5,882 people	0,634	2.36 inhab/km²	R$ 32.016,61
Cities of Minas Gerais
Arinos	17,862 people	0,656	3.35 inhab/km²	R$ 11.260,49
Buritis	25,013 people	0,672	4.35 inhab/km²	R$ 28.390,07
big headboard	6,988 people	0,648	6.26 inhab/km²	BRL 26,260.47
Unai	84,930 people	0,736	9.18 inhab/km²	BRL 31,866.55

Source: IBGE

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RIDE-DF Map

In 2018, based on another complementary law sanctioned by then president Michel Temer, a few more municipalities were added to the RIDE, as shown in the map and legend below.

Note on the map, in blue, the municipalities incorporated from 2018.

Source: Federal District Planning Company (Codeplan).

Ride Economy

Most cities that make up the RIDE have their economy based on activities in Brasilia and surrounding areas, as it is the main city in this region. Nearby cities, such as Novo Gama, Formosa and Val Paraíso de Goiás, have strong pendular migration to the federal capital, where people leave the cities of Goiás, work in the Federal District and return to their homes.

However, some municipalities have natural wealth that shape the municipal GDP, like the beautiful waterfalls in Formosa and Pirenópolis, where the tourist industry is quite expressive; the extraction and production of nickel in Niquelândia; or even agriculture in Unaí, which is a major grain producer in Brazil, with an emphasis on beans and corn.

solved exercises

Question 1 - (PUCCAMP/2017)

In Latin America of the 20th century, in countless moments, artistic creation was articulated with utopias or perspectives of social transformation. In different contexts, artists used their production to corroborate certain political projects or consented that their creations were appropriated and supported by political movements, inside or outside the State.

(PRADO, Maria Ligia and PELLEGRINO, Gabriela. Latin American History. São Paulo: Context, 2014. P. 187-188)

The construction of Brasília had passionate sympathizers and staunch critics of the project, including artists and liberal professionals from different fields. Among the controversies that still surround the project known as Plano Piloto, stands out

A) the inability to include poor populations who migrated to the region to carry out the work, such as the "candangos", workers who settled on the outskirts of the city and contributed to the emergence of satellite cities, today densely populated.

B) the high cost of this investment for the public coffers, since it was necessary for the Brazilian government to borrow in the United States for the construction of the city, which only ceased to represent a budgetary burden when it was recognized as a heritage of humanity and started to be maintained, nowadays, by entities international.

C) the inadequacy of the project for locomotion in the city, as well as the isolation, by military garrisons, of the sector of buildings that have always housed governmental powers, characteristics that were linked to the authoritarianism in force in the country under the

mandate of Juscelino Kubitschek.

D) the Stalinist mark present in the monumental architecture employed, in the division of the city into "sectors", in the numbering of streets and blocks, and which echoed the political leanings of the project's creators, Oscar Niemeyer and Roberto Burle Marx, who were already renowned International.

E) the loss that the transfer of the federal capital meant to Rio de Janeiro, as it resulted in thousands of public employees unemployed, a crisis that favored the political strengthening of Carlos Lacerda, architect of the 1964 coup and defender of the military regime throughout the dictatorship.

Resolution

Alternative A. One of the reasons that led to the creation of RIDE is in the history of the population of Brasília and the region, because around areas and cities appeared, the satellite cities, which grew in a disorderly way and with population swelling. Hence the need for joint public investments to develop historically damaged areas in their economies.

Question 2 - (PUCCAMP/2016)

The 1950s were marked by the desire to modernize the country, whose reflexes are also felt in the cultural sphere. It is worth noting the maturity of the poetry of João Cabral, a poet who rebelled against what he considered our sentimentality, our “traditional lyricism Lusitano”, as well as the emergence of new experimental tendencies, observable in the renovating language of Ferreira Gullar and in the radicalization of the poets of the concretism. The geometric lines of Brasília's architecture and the attachment to constructivism that marks poetic creation seem, in fact, to be close and interconnected trends.

(MOUTINHO, Felipe, unpublished)

The inauguration of Brasília, symbol of the modernization undertaken during the period of JK's government, was accompanied by a series of immediate impacts, among which we can mention

A) the move of the federal capital, a measure that caused much controversy, as the project had been unusual in the history of Brazil, and federal officials refused to move to the Midwest.

B) the end of the economic isolation of the Midwest, through the inauguration of an extensive road network and a large industrial park in the vicinity of the capital.

C) the migration of small farmers from the south of the country to Goiás and Mato Grosso, stimulated by state incentives for soy planting and export-oriented agriculture.

D) the transformation of the locality into a fundamental national tourist hub, due to foreign curiosity in getting to know the first planned city in Latin America.

E) the growth of satellite cities far beyond the proportion imagined by Lucio Costa in his first plans, due to the large population of workers attracted to the region.

Resolution

Alternative E. Following the same reasoning as the previous question, satellite cities around Brasília have grown disorderly, which aggravated the situation of the population, with the need for historical repair in terms of public policy. This repair theoretically came with the creation of RIDE.

Grades

|1| 2020 data.

|2| 2017 data.

Image credits

[1] Brastock / Shutterstock

[2] Kleber Silva / Shutterstock

By Attila Matthias
Geography teacher