Industrial agglomerations in Brazil: use of territory and recent changes

Author(s)

Rodolfo Finatti

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2016-12-19

Examining board members

Maria Mónica Arroyo; Olga Lúcia Castreghini de Freitas Firkowski; Andre Tosi Furtado; Sandra Lencioni; Eliseu Savério Sposito

• Advisor: Maria Mónica Arroyo

Abstract

Industrial agglomerations can be analysed as geographic forms that express the preparation of the territory for productive activity, including the intentionality and actions taken towards its implantation, which highlight qualitative and topological differences, and occasionally, combinations between the State and the market. Eleven different types of industrial agglomerations have been identified in Brazil, through bibliographic review and field research done in ten states of the Brazilian Federation, where the main agents linked to the management of these areas were interviewed. Within this scope, the geographic analysis of the forms of industrial agglomeration allows us to present features of the technical-scientific-informational environment and the contemporary corporative use of the territory, as well as the processes through which the spatial selectivity in the Brazilian territory is reaffirmed and makes clear areas with different levels of specialization. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 13/03437-0 - Forms of industrial agglomeration in Brazil: planning and corporate use of territory
• Grantee: Rodolfo Finatti
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate