Study of specialized commercial areas in the city of Porto in Portugal

• Grant number: 13/23185-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: February 02, 2014
• End date: May 01, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Maria Encarnação Beltrão Sposito
• Grantee: Flaviane Ramos dos Santos
• Supervisor: José Alberto Vieira Rio Fernandes
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidade do Porto (UP), Portugal
• Associated to the scholarship: 13/08710-7 - Centralization, commercial axis and consumption: a study of car dealerships in Presidente Prudente - SP, BP.IC

Abstract

Through the completion of internship abroad, we propose a study of axles and commercial services in the city of Porto, with concentration of dealers sales of motor vehicles, in order to identify their locational strategies, as well as check for presence of levels of functional specialization and / or socioeconomic status. Similarly to regular research developed in Brazil, the internship will provide enriching elements, with respect to approaches and comparisons relating to economic and social division of urban space, from Presidente Prudente, Brazil and Porto in Portugal. (AU)