URBANIZATION, ECONOMIC DYNAMICS AND TERRITORIAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE INTERMEDIATE CITIES OF SANTA CRUZ DO SUL (BRAZIL) AND SAN CARLOS DE BARILOCHE (ARGENTINA)

• Autor(a) principal: Lima Silveira, Rogério Leandro
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Civitaresi, Héctor Martí­n, Colino, Evelyn Del Valle, Faccin, Carolina Rezende
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng; spa
• Título da fonte: Revista brasileira de gestão e desenvolvimento regional
• Texto Completo: https://www.rbgdr.net/revista/index.php/rbgdr/article/view/6310
• topic: Intermediate cities; Urbanization; Urban economic dynamics; Territorial transformations; Socio-spatial consequences;; Intermediate cities, Urbanization, Urban economic dynamics, Territorial transformations, Socio-spatial consequences,; Ciudades intermedias; Urbanización; Dinámica económica urbana; Transformaciones territoriales; Repercusiones socio-espaciales

The topic of urbanization and territorial transformations in two Latin American intermediate cities is addressed: Santa Cruz do Sul, in the central region of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and San Carlos de Bariloche, in the northern region of Patagonia, in Río Negro, Argentina. Similarities and particularities in the urbanization process are analyzed, highlighting the dynamics and recent economic changes, the regional centrality and the spatial transformations experienced by the two cities. Methodologically, based on the concepts of intermediate cities and social production of urban space, the secondary data on urbanization and the urban economy collected by IBGE in Brazil and INDEC in Argentina is analyzed. The process of urbanization of both medium-sized cities is amplified and complexed as a result of their relationship with global productive chains such as tourism and tobacco, but also of changes in their urban economies and spatial dynamics through processes of urban expansion, fragmentation and segregation.