O terciário e a centralidade urbanorregional de Mossoró-RN

Abstract

It is a study that aims to understand the process of reaffirmation of the urban-regional centrality of Mossoró from the 1970s, with reference to commercial activity and the provision of services. This work has adopted as a train thought, the method of regressive-progressive analysis, formulated by Lefebvre; and as methodological procedures, the reading and the theoretical discussion of the concepts of urban space, region and centrality (key concepts); the analysis of historical and geographic texts that explain and contextualize the urban-regional centrality of the city of Mossoró; the collection, systematization and analysis of statistical data on this urban center and its region of influence; as well as research and field investigations. It is structured in three main parts that deal with: socioeconomic and tertiary characterization of the city of Mossoró and its region of influence - established from the study of Regions of Influences of Cities (REGIC, 2008); the historical and spatial conformation of its regional centrality; the discussion of spatial relations and processes that reaffirm this city as a central urban space in the region. It was observed that Mossoró has been configured, from a historical, spatial and functional point of view, as an urban-regional centrality, continuously attracting, and due to its economic activities, various flows to its urban nucleus. In addition, it has been inferred that, since the 1970s, the concentration and diversity of service and business activities found in this urban space are elements that reaffirm the regional centrality of this city, because the flows that flow from this and to this center are mainly driven by the supply of tertiary activities.