METROPOLIZATION OF SPACE, TERRITORIAL MANAGEMENT AND URBAN-RURAL RELATIONSHIPS: POSSIBLE INTERACTIONS

Abstract

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/geouerj.2014.14408

The article develops the hypothesis according to which the reproduction of the space, in the contemporary world, deepens the contradiction between the social production process of space and its private appropriation. The metropolization of space, in a broad sense, contributes to transform urban/metropolitan spatial dynamics in every territorial scale. Space is a social product and is produced with intentions that interfere in everyday life. The planning and territorial management in a moment of sharpening of social contradictions and exclusionary practices in all geographical scales are defined in relation to collective and individual rights. In other words, they operate with the assumption that there is, on the one hand, the territorial logic of social groups affected/dominated by the power-geometries and, on the other side, is the logic of those who manage development projects. The recent global rush for farmland has produced a dramatic increase in investments in land in Brazil. The current trend accentuates the ongoing process of increasing land prices as well as the consequences of this process. The paper focuses the interactions between territorial management and urban-rural relationships integrated by the metropolization of space seen as the dominant spatial process nowadays.