The Demographic Dimension in the Megapolization Case: The case of the macro-metropolis of São Paulo

• Grant number: 14/04566-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: May 01, 2014
• End date: April 30, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Demography - Spatial Distribution
• Principal Investigator: Jose Marcos Pinto da Cunha
• Grantee: Késia Anastácio Alves da Silva
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/07616-7 - CEM - Center for Metropolitan Studies, AP.CEPID

Abstract

The current stage of the Latin American megapolization process if relates with o restructuring of production processes , influenced by new media and information This stage is characterized by a spatial configuration that transcends the notion of urban and urban conglomerate, incorporating the dimension regional various ways. Thus, to understand the configuration of the most complex urban morphologies and change of the classic monocentric city , many authors resort to new concepts and terms to explain the new settings and the roles that these clusters establish in the city system. So come form now known as the metropolis, but also other forms such as macro-metropolis , among others . Forms that relate to the new relations of capital and with the social division of labor. Regarding macro-metropolis , in the case of Brazil , encompasses important centers - where the phenomenon of mobility is intense - the research aims to evaluate the structure of this complex mega metropolis , the light of population movements.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SILVA, Késia Anastácio Alves da. New urban forms and look througr demography: a structuring of city-region paulista. 2018. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.