RESTRUCTURINGANDPRODUCTIVENEWTERRITORIALCONFIGURATIONSOFBRAZILIAN CITIES

Abstract

The current stage of Brazilian urbanization is characterized by expressive transformations in the spatial configuration and nature of metropolises, inserted in the list of changes produced by productive restructuring. Dynamics of concentration and mobility, refunctionalize centers and peripheries, cause land appreciation and activation of the real estate market, in addition to projecting a new urban form, which reconfigures cities and metropolises. At the same time, metropolitan characteristics are reproduced in dispersed areas of the territory. Corporate metropolises function as producing and radiating/diffusing centers of socio-territorial (re)configuration processes, at the same time, in which medium and small cities are interconnected to those through production processes and distribution of goods and services, even if they are located hundreds of kilometers from major urban centers. Discussing the role played by the territory in this new era of capital accumulation - productive restructuring - this is the purpose of this article.