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In the past decade in Brazil, we have witnessed the rise of a new subaltern space, which has prompted a new theoretical category, incorporated in the contemporary epistemologies of Subaltern Urbanism: Urban Occupations. These new terrains of livelihood and self-organization have prompted a series of new resistance strategies, everyday practices and narratives that must be understood and decodified. The Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte—third largest in the country—accounts for over 25 housing occupations in its territory, more than half of which settled in the last five years. Occupation Rosa Leão, established in 2013, is one of them. As it happens in many other occupations, most of its dwellers are black women. They constitute majority in the coordination groups and are often more closely involved in the collective necessities of the community. The present article draws upon the experiences of these women as subjects of their own history to showcase urban occupation as a powerful place for understanding and dismantling the always existing but often overlooked intersection between coloniality and gender. It relies on the activist and academic engagement of both authors in these territories, and specifically in the experience with a women-only self-construction workshop organized in October 2017. Through this workshop, we sought to understand how "usually male" construction knowledge was employed (or not) by women, how it could be used as a tool for domination/emancipation and how gender relations intertwined with such issues in the process.

O planejamento da Região Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte que teve início no final da década de 1970 vem passando por um importante processo de transformação: após um período de hiato na década de 1990, o projeto metropolitano foi retomado junto à Universidade, buscando superar a experiência de bases tecnocráticas do período militar e assumir cada vez mais uma base participativa. Esse novo modelo de gestão metropolitana é pautado pela ideia de que é o processo de planejamento(talvez mais do que os planos finais) que permite a gestão democrática do território da metrópole. Para isso, a UFMG, na elaboração do Plano Diretor de Desenvolvimento Integrado da RMBH, apoia-se na criação de umaidentidade metropolitana e no reconhecimento de lugares metropolitanos nos quais o cidadão metropolitano pode compartilhar um cotidiano dotado de regras construídas e compartilhadas localmente. O objetivo deste artigo é discutir um pouco mais esses conceitos que são referências importantes ao atual processo de planejamento metropolitano a partir das experiências práticas que dele se desdobraram, no intuito de ampliar o debate sobre as possibilidades e as limitações de cada um deles. ; The planning of the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte, set in motion in the late 1970s, underwent an important process of transformation: after a hiatus period in the 1990s, the metropolitan project was resumed along with the University, seeking to overcome the experience of technocratic bases of the military period and to assume an increasingly participatory basis. This new model of metropolitan planning is based on the idea that it is the planning process (perhaps more than the final plans) that allows a democratic management of the territory of the metropolis. To that end, the UFMG, in the elaboration of the Master Plan of Integrated Development of the MRBH, relies on the creation of a metropolitan identity and the recognition of metropolitan places in which the metropolitan citizen can share a daily life endowed with rules built and shared locally. The purpose of this article is to further discuss these concepts that are important references to the current metropolitan planning process, based on the practical experiences that have unfolded so far in order to broaden the debate about the possibilities and limitations of each one of them.