City-Region Relations: Reflections Based on Studies of City Influence Regions
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https://doi.org/10.36403/espacoaberto.2024.63390Keywords:
City-Region Relationships, City Influence Regions, Typology of Brazilian Rural SpacesAbstract
This paper addresses the relationships between cities and their regional contexts, focusing on the cities studied in the project "Contemporary Urbanization: Restructuring and Socio-Spatial Inequalities". The aim of the analyses was to characterize city-region relations, particularly in terms of centrality within the urban network and the characteristics of different rural contexts. The results clearly identify a group of medium-sized cities with the centrality of regional capitals, exerting strong polarization in their regional spaces, and a group of sub-regional centers that play an important role in regional polarization. From the perspective of rural contexts, there is a great variety of situations, with cities in regional spaces characterized by family farming, the integration of agriculture with industry, agribusiness, extractive rural activities, and pluriactivity; highlighting the diverse realities of urbanization and land occupation in Brazil.
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