Regional Dynamics and Spatial Distribution of Municipal Public Investments in Culture and Cultural Equipments: An Analysis of the Relationship between Culture and Development in the Administrative Region of Campinas.

• Grant number: 09/07548-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2009
• End date: July 31, 2010
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Regional Geography
• Principal Investigator: Roberto Braga
• Grantee: Gustavo da Silva Diniz
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas (IGCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The analysis of development of a region need consider economic indicators, include spatial features and elements that indicate the quality of life, such as culture. The culture has central role in the development debate and, such as dynamic economic, the cultural dynamics exacerbates inequalities and social distances. The main level of government responsible for investments in culture is the municipal.The culture is developed in relation to the territories, and municipalities have notable differences in their demographic aspects, economic dynamism, income potencial and cultural investment power. In national level, we verify the correlation between the income concentration and cultural equipments concentration and municipal resources destiny to the cultural sector concentration. Thus, there are great possibilities to show the same correlation at the regional level.This project wants to examine the relationship between culture and development in the Administrative Region of Campinas, from the 1990s, by avaliation of the regional dynamics and spatial distribution of municipal public investments in culture and cultural equipments, and the relationship between them.