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| Author(s): |
Alexandre Abdal Cunha
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2008-06-09 |
| Examining board members: |
Alvaro Augusto Comin;
Glauco Antonio Truzzi Arbix;
Renato de Castro Garcia
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| Advisor: | Alvaro Augusto Comin |
| Abstract | |
The present dissertation intends to deal with the Brazilian regional development debate. It recognizes the fact that Sao Paulo Metropolitan Region (SPMR) was the most important area of the Brazilian industrialization process, and since 1970 it has been losing industrial weight - concerning output and jobs. The phenomenon had been firstly interpreted as a typical deindustrialization process. That notwithstanding, a more recent literature has managed to prove the error of this sort of explanation. In this sense, they have set an alternative interpretation for the phenomenon emerged which sees it as being a result of the spread of SPMR influential area to its adjoining regions, in a context of huge productive restructuring process - caused by trade openness, economic deregulation and privatizations. Such spread has not been realized in a random way. Rather it has followed a kind of hierarchy based on a modernity and dynamism degree, which have de-concentrated from SPMR the most routinized industrial activities and concentrated there the most modern ones. Beyond testing the addressed hypothesis, this dissertation aims also to investigate Sao Paulo\'s post 1985 locational patterns, with special attention to the development of a wider economic territory, named Sao Paulo\'s Macrometropolis - constituted by SPMR and its adjoining regions. Its main characteristic is the existence of linkages amongst industry and productivity services, in such a pattern that the first tends to become intensive outside SPMR and the second, inside it. A further issue must be noted, however. The industry, especially the most modern one, remains highly concentrated in SPMR. In other words, at least in the case of SPMR, the development of productivity services should not be understood as a substitute for industry. (AU) | |