O recente desempenho das cidades médias no crescimento populacional urbano brasileiro

Resumo

This study shows initially the important contribution made by the intermediatesized cities in the demographic growth dynamics and in the decentralization of the urban population in the period 1970/91 in Brazil. Later on, when an analysis of a group of urban centers considered as medium-sized cities in the 70´s is made, a conclusion is reached that these cities exhibited a larger growth rate than those shown by their subordinated cities in the hierarchy of urban centers, what means that centripetal economic forces were stronger that the centrifugal ones in the field of forces formed by each the medium-sized city (the nucleus) and its subordinated cities (their satellites). Additionally, this paper also shows that: a) in general, it can be accepted the association between the urbanization and industrialization phenomena; and b) the system of medium-sized cities played an important role by restraining the process of industrial decentralization in Brazil, putting limits to its territorial sprawl. Finally, using the data taken from the 1996 Population Count made public recentlly, this study finds that the metropolitan regions recovered their former demographic performance by showing larger population growth rates than the country as a whole, due basically to the “peripherization” of the national metropolises.

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Tipo

Estudo

Ano

1998

Instituição

Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Ipea)

Fonte

Repositório do Ipea

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Acesso aberto

Identificador

oai:repositorio.ipea.gov.br:11058/2385

Licença

Licença Padrão Ipea

Abrangência

Brasil; Regiões Metropolitanas; 1950-1991; 1970-1991

Temas

Planejamento Urbano

Palavras-chave

Crescimento urbano brasileiroAnálise do desempenho demográficoPolarização industrialCrescimento populacional