The Metropolis Belém and its centrality in the Western Brazilian Amazon

Authors

  • Ana Cláudia Cardoso Universidade Federal do Pará
  • Danilo Fernandes Universidade Federal do Pará
  • Ana Bastos Universidade Federal do Pará
  • Cleidianne Sousa Universidade Federal do Pará

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4067/S0250-71612015000400010

Keywords:

metropolitazion, urban network, Amazonian cities

Abstract

In the literature, there is an extensive discussion on cities demetropolitanization or metropolization and their role across their area of influence. This study discusses these issues taking as a subject the Metropolitan Region of Belém (rmb), capital of Pará State, Brazilian Amazon. It recovers the history of the territorial development of Belém over almost 400 years, and using economic data and official former studies on Brazilian urban network, this paper seeks to demonstrate the coexistence of two dynamics in rmb. One associated to its role as the prime city within the Amazon network until the mid-twentieth century, and another that reveals the incorporation of the region to the industrial capitalist dynamics of Brazil after the 1950s. We may say that despite of the ratio decreased in the StateÍ€™ gdp, rmbÍ€™s metropolitan expansion and services specialization shows that it has actually assumed new functions and maintains the characteristics of a regional metropolis.

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Published

2015-09-02

How to Cite

Cardoso, A. C., Fernandes, D., Bastos, A., & Sousa, C. (2015). The Metropolis Belém and its centrality in the Western Brazilian Amazon. Revista EURE - Revista De Estudios Urbano Regionales, 41(124). https://doi.org/10.4067/S0250-71612015000400010

Issue

Vol. 41 No. 124 (2015)

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