A cidade média interiorizada: Pau dos Ferros no desenvolvimento regional

Abstract

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