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A cidade média interiorizada: Pau dos Ferros no desenvolvimento regional
Fecha
2015Registro en:
1809-0044
1984-3526 (Online)
Autor
França, Rosana Silva de
Dantas, Joseney Rodrigues de Queiroz
Clementino, Maria do Livramento Miranda
Resumen
This work is part of the study of medium-sized towns and their role in regional and urban development
and aims to understand the determinants of production of urban-regional space Pau dos Ferros (RN).
The thread of the analysis was the way has been reconfiguring the medium-sized towns interiorized
and how this reconfiguration affect relations between cities and between cities and regions. Pau dos
Ferros has played in their area of influence intermediation functions in the provision of higher
education and health services and the supply of jobs. This reality extends to other sub-regional
centers in the interior northeast, that because of recent internalization of public services, have boosted
their economy and have expanded its area of influence. Towns are integrated into the dynamics of
regional urbanization in need of continued decentralization of federal investments considered strategic
for the regional development