The urban centrality of Presidente Prudente-SP: an analysis of commuting and its contribution to studies of intermediate cities

• Grant number: 11/17542-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2011
• End date: November 30, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Arthur Magon Whitacker
• Grantee: Priscila Estevam Engel
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The intermediate cities have been widely studied because of its new features and its growing role in Brazilian urban network. However, in view of migration commuting the focus of the research has largely fallen on metropolitan areas, arguably the scene of heavy commuting flows. This paper is, in short, to analyze the centrality of Presidente Prudente from commuting, contributing to the understanding of how this phenomenon occurs in an intermediate city, a reference in a context of regional cities of lesser size and centrality, components of the administrative area of Presidente Prudente, and even in other analytical scales.