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The breaking point: spatial restructuring in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro

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Author(s):
Oséias Teixeira da Silva
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: São Paulo.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
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Examining board members:
Sandra Lencioni; Isabel Aparecida Pinto Alvarez; Gloria da Anunciação Alves; Olga Lúcia Castreghini de Freitas Firkowski; Floriano José Godinho de Oliveira
Advisor: Sandra Lencioni
Abstract

In this work, we start from the hypothesis that associated with the economic recovery in the mid-1990s was occurring a restructuring process, marked by the occurrence of metropolitan dispersion and reconfiguration of metropolitan centrality. The metropolitan dispersion and reconfiguration of metropolitan centrality are seen as facets of the same spatial restructuring process that develops at different paces in different metropolitan regions. The metropolitan dispersion means the fraying of the metropolitan urban area, with the expansion of the voids between the effectively occupied areas and between the extremes of the metropolitan region, what happens from the production of discontinuous urban areas that combine enclaves and another form of urbanization like popular allotments and housing states. The reconfiguration of metropolitan centrality represents the transition from a monocentric structure to a policentric structure of centers, thats happen according as some metropolitan municipalities extend the degree of concentration of central functions besides passing to concentrate some central functions previously only found in the metropolis. Both facets of present spatial restructuring point to a form of production of space more dispersed, fragmented and articulated on a regional scale. In the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, region marked by an extreme concentration of population and economic activities in the metropolis, the spatial restructuring is evidenced from of a breaking point in the secular trends of economic and population concentration in the metropolis. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 13/10150-0 - Recent dinamics of process of metropolization fluminense
Grantee:Oséias Teixeira da Silva
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate