Leis de silêncio em Belo Horizonte: evolução e tendências

Abstract

Nowadays, an discussion about acoustic pollution in capital city of Minas Gerais state, Brazil, arose some months ago. It happened because a suggestion to modify local silence law was approved in city hall and it provoked several debates and social movements pro and against which are in course yet. Facing this scene, this article is concerned to show an evolution about silence laws developed to Belo Horizonte city (BHC) between 1948 and 2016 and presents viable tendencies on municipal acousticsphere, oscillating between constraint or valuable features, which must be enlightened to the contemporary discussion about local environmental acoustic. Although we are potential ethical beings, the laws help us to sustain the harmony among conflicted concerns in complex society, sharing consents. In the part of this article devoted to evolution analysis of local silence laws, it was developed a comparison among them based in eight categories proposed. The acousticsphere tendencies in BHC were pointed based on a hermeneutic of two law projects, one from 2013 and other from 2016. The evolution and tendencies signs that the issue of acoustic pollution must be focused taking into account a complex approach.