THE SPATIAL INTERACTIONS IN CONFIGURATION AND PRODUCTION OF ARRANGEMENTS FUNCTIONAL ON MEDIUM-SIZED CITIES

Abstract

This article aims to rethink the issue of spatial interactions on the perspective of socio-spatial reproduction involving medium-sized cities. So we did a reading of authors such as Richard Hartshorne, Edward Ullman and Roberto Corrêa Lobato on the definitions of spatial interactions along each historical moment, pointing out the contributions of each of these authors to the issue at hand. The materialization of forms and structures that shape the medium-sized cities is singular. Thus, we can not generalize them, much less limit our thinking in accordance with a characterization of the functional dynamics of these cities as reflecting the actions arising in the metropolis. Thus, the medium-sized cities are classified because they constitute a configuration that differs from the large cities and metropolises. Its dynamics shows an interaction between country and city, expressed by ruralities intertwine over urban. A tangle of territorial division of labor. Interactions with other urban centers structure and form regional networks geographical guided by small towns and mid-sized cities and insert these in a logic-driven globalized economy. What highlights the contradictory character of production and socio-spatial reproduction process, seen through the natural and heterogeneous spatiality that create and recreate on the conformity of these spatial interactions at differentiating the metropolis.