Metropolization of the space: Itu, Salto and Sorocaba

Author(s)

Andréia de Cássia da Silva Ajonas

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2015-03-09

Examining board members

Sandra Lencioni; Fabio Betioli Contel; Silvia Aparecida Guarnieri Ortigoza; Jose Borzacchiello da Silva; Arthur Magon Whitacker

• Advisor: Sandra Lencioni

Abstract

The restructuring process involved implications so much in the morphology, as much in the dynamics of life in many cities, generating considerable changes in intercity flows. Its about them that we seat our analysis. In Brazil, the dynamics that defined our time frame established themselves more sharply through a series of reformulations policies that characterized the early 1990s. They led, among other things, to the increased of the competition between companies and their greater freedom of movement throughout the territory, being the industry the driving force of numerous spatial transformations. To understand the relation between changes in industrial structure and urban network, we defined as territorial clipping the cities of Itu, Salto and Sorocaba. The analysis of the intercity flows of these cities provides elements that reaffirm the idea that the spatial changes generated from the productive restructuring did not result in a loss of importance of the state capital, São Paulo. Instead, there was an increase of its centrality, as well as others that give support to it, as is the case of Sorocaba, around which a new agglomerate has been conformed. This city strengthened its functions in urban network and, currently, integrates the broad metropolitan set formed by the expansion of the paulistana metropolis, the city-region. Concomitantly with this reaffirmation of certain centralities, there is also the increasing importance of flows established between cities of the same hierarchical level, which, linked to other aspects, marks the development of a more complex urban network, due the multiplicity of interactions that take place. This apparent contradiction in the context of the urban network and its relation with the restructuring process is another point that we seek to understand with this research. It remits us to the analysis of the economic and business strategies changes for the capitalist concentration during the recent decades. This is because we consider the economic flows as the main delineaters of the urban network. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 10/07291-2 - ITU, Salto and Sorocaba: metropolization of the space
• Grantee: Andréia de Cássia da Silva Ajonas
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate