%0 Journal Article %T Urbs e civitas: a forma o dos espa os e territ¨®rios urbanos nas minas setecentistas %A Claudia Damasceno Fonseca %J Anais do Museu Paulista: Hist¨®ria e Cultura Material %D 2012 %I Universidade de S?o Paulo %X This article seeks to situate the evolution of approaches to the study of the colonial towns of Minas Gerais placing them in the broader perspective of studies on the Portuguese colonial urbanism. Instead of restricting our approach to questions of urban aesthetics, the analysis focuses on the works that tried to relate these questions to aspects of land ownership and to the establishment of networks and urban hierarchies. %U http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=27322910004