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The category “Region” has been traditionally referred to by government policies for planning and control purposes. However, since the beginning of 21st century, with the ascension of Workers Party (PT), the category “territory” has become fundamental for implementing policies or territorial organization. Such adoption, in the political-institutional environment, produced results on Civil society of Sisal region, because the territory has become key word in the speech of social subjects (associations and agricultural cooperatives rural workers Union and non-governmental organizations). Taking this perception into consideration, the objective of the article is to offer reflection that contributes to in-depth debate about surface, political and organizational contents of the processes of use of the idea of region and/or territory to define techniques of application of public policies. Therefore, the text is structured in 3 parts which aim at explaining how, in specific environment, a region become a territory: the differentiation of semi-arid space, official recognition of Sisal Region in Bahia, and emergence of Sisal Territory.

This work analyzes the implementation of development policies and their repercussions in the municipality of São José dos Campos, SP, from the sanatorium period to construction of the technological city. From the 1920s to the 2000s, São José dos Campos underwent intense changes in its social, spatial, and economic development. During this period, the municipality, which had been focusing on providing hospital services to treat lung diseases, experienced intense industrialization associated with significant population growth and rapid expansion of its urban area. In parallel with the industrialization process, a second structure connected to the productive development of Science and Technology (S & T) began to be organized in the 1940s.

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The forms of exploitation and expropriation in the city imply the emergence of land and buildings occupations in peripheral and central areas. In Curitiba, slums, neighborhoods without infrastructure, popular housing, vacant land sites and buildings make part of multiple processes and temporalities that emerge of the city which is mythically taken as urban planning model. The research seeks to analyze organized land occupations in order to understand its links with the reproduction of the metropolis, revealing the scale of the place, of everyday life, of sociability in these occupations, their socio-political organization strategies and resistance, revealing urban struggles as an amalgam between local particularities and global processes, placing the debate in the realization of the right to the city. Key-words: urban struggles, production of space, land occupations, spatial justice.

The full text format seeks to analyze the social inequality in Brazil through the spatial process of that inequality in this sense it analyzes, scratching the edges of what is known of the Brazilian urbanization model and how this same model produced gentrification cities and exclusive. So search the text discuss the country’s urban exclusion through consolidation of what is conventionally called peripheral areas, or more generally, of peripheries. The text on screen is the result of research carried out at the Federal Fluminense University in Masters level. In this study, we tried to understand the genesis of an urban housing development located in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro called Jardim Catarina. Understand what the problem space partner who originated it. In this sense, his analysis becomes consubstantial to understand the social and spatial inequalities in Brazil, as well as the role of the state as planning manager socio-spatial planning and principal agent in the solution of such problems. It is expected that with the realization of a study of greater amounts, from which this article is just a micro work can contribute subsidies that contribute to the arrangement and crystallization of public policies that give account of social inequalities and serve to leverage a country more fair and equitable cities.

This paper discusses the participation of agricultural cooperatives in the modernization of agriculture in Paraná State (Brazil), especially in the period from the late 1960s until the early 1980s. With state support, these “entities-companies” acted strongly in the insertion of new technologies, imposed by a market globally orchestrated in the industrial logic came to dominate the field.

The private health services use the territory from Natal/RN in many ways. From many multi-scale events some areas were becoming concentration points of these services, while in the largest part of the territory, the same was rarefied. However, in the last years this process occurs simultaneously with a dispersion of the same for other areas of the city which began to show a significant centrality. The new territory points, target of this dispersion, are main lythe business traditional center and the new city centralities. Nevertheless, the use of the territory for these services is guided by a level of complexity, specialities and different consuming public in each subspace. In this way, we try to understand the use of multicentralities from Natal/RN city by private health care. Thus, the main point of view is based on the understanding of the formation of multiplecentralities and polynucleated in the city and the territory’s use for this activity as a resource.

The paper analyses the space appropriation by the public and private actors in the Brazilian Amazon coastal zone. In particular, the article examines the use and appropriation of the territory that covers the Atalaia Island, located in the municipality of Salinopolis, Pará state. The Atalaia Island concentrates a diversity of socio-spatial practices that stress complexes relationships of spatial reproduction carried out by social actors within diverse interests and power. Methodologically, the research which this paper derivates was based on documental analysis, observation, semi-structured interviews with local social actors and specialised professionals, and also elaboration of maps and drat-images. The article shows that territory occupation without legal concerns brings as consequence the irregular and private use of the space what contradicts the conception for public use of coastal islands.

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Interrelationships among production, marketing and logistics of transport sector of fruit production come about by the actions of economic agents in the geographic space. This paper aims to analyze the process of spatial interactions between project exporters and international markets, through territorial configuration export, transport logistics and customs areas that handled the flow of goods, from 2001 to 2014. As methodology, we adopted literature review, gathering and analysis of secondary data sources for explanation of export flows in Jaíba Project. We discuss in the text, the emergence process, infrastructure expansion and internationalization through exports, which are outflowed to ports and airports by the national road transport. From customs areas, exported products follow to international markets by maritime and international air transport.

The objective of this paper is to put in a comparative perspective the real estate markets of two midsized cities. Working with real estate advertisements of lands, from 1995 to 2010, in Ribeirão Preto/SP and Londrina/PR, and other sources of information, this paper seeks to understand some of the contemporary features of production and conditions of consumption of these cities. It takes as reference the redefinition of the production logical of urban space in general and of the cities particularly, comparing characteristics such as the continuity of the urban fabric and the amplification of the dynamics of internal differentiation of the city. From the particularities of housing production, we can observe the redefinition of spatial strategies by the agents and the amplification of its economical power over the practices of production and appropriation of the cities.

Les réseaux agro-industrielles, avec le soutien delibere de l’Etat, sont établis dans des lieux et provoquent une restructuration productive compatible avec leurs intérêts, changeant la base technique et aussi économique et sociale du secteur agricole, et provoquant la formation e/ou la restructuration des régions qui viennent à incarner des spécialisations territoriales. L’Ouest de Bahia, situé au Nordeste du Brésil, est configuré comme un exemple de ces régions fonctionnels au l’agrobusiness, contenant, surtout à partir des années 1980, les conditions favorables à l’expansion de cette activité, avec un investissement massif de capitaux publics et privés dans la technicisation du territoire. Ça région a son organisation socio-spatiale actuelle guidée par des réseaux agro-industrielles, qui participant aux circuits spatiales de la production et des cercles de la coopération de la production céréalière moderne, en particulier le soja. Le contenu urbain et rôles régionaux des principales villes de l’Ouest Baiano - Barreiras et Luís Eduardo Magalhães, en particulier dans le cas de ce dernier – sont de résultat de l’intégration croissante entre l’agrobusiness et les circuits de l’économie urbaine, ce qui rend ces villes en espaces fonctionnelles aux exigences productives de l’agriculture moderne. Dans cette région, la propagation de l’agrobusiness est conduite de manière conservatrice, ce qui entraîne le renforcement des historiques inégalités socio-spatiales, et provoquant la création de nouvelles.

This article analysis the process that defined the urban network’s spatial form in the west of Bahia, Brazil, in the past, demonstrating the function the center’s Barra, like a main center of commercial’s interchangeable in the region, from the colonial time. To understand the initial process of development any urban network, it’s necessary to verify elements like the genesis, geographic position, size and urban functions of the centers, beyond spatial interactions caused by these urban functions, like a interchangeable of the people, goods, capital and information, and urban network’s spatial form (CORRÊA, 2000). The discussion starts about the occupation on the left side of river São Francisco, in the state of Bahia, Brazil, occurred from second part sixteenth century (IBGE, 1958), and ends identifying the urban network genesis in the end nineteenth century (SANTOS FILHO, 1989).

The majority of the productive activities of Mesoregion Triangulo Mineiro/Alto Paranaíba-MG is linked to the primary sector, whose productivity is a lot dependent on rhythm of rainfall. This article reports results of research aimed to verification of the variability of the rain in the annual scales, seasonal, monthly and daily, with featured for determination of the beginning and end of the rainy season and analysis of the frequency of dry spells occurring in that territorial unit. For this, we used data available by the Agência Nacional de Águas (ANA) of 19 pluviometric posts, comprising historical series of 34 years (1980-2013). After the application of tools specific statistics for each of the time scales, it was observed that the beginning of the rainy season occurs predominantly in October (27% of the years analyzed) and the end occurs especially in April (76% of the years analyzed). Inside of the rainy season is common the occurrence of dry spells of intensity predominantly weak to average (7 to 12 days), especially in the months February and March. The majority of the daily rains is weak, occurring below of 10 mm and are less significant for the total of the rainfall heights. The rainfall classified as strong, above 30 mm, have low frequency (13% of the total of the rainfall events), but are responsible for almost half of the annual pluviometric volume.

This paper presents the results and discussions obtained through a research made to characterize and analyze the institutional arrangement of metropolitan management in Goiania Metropolitan Region, approaching aspects related to instances and metropolitan management instruments and also related to articulations build to the metropolitan governance, developed on the project Brazil’s Metropolitan Governance (2012-14) in the framework Rede Ipea. To do the research, an exploratory study was made, starting with bibliographical and documental revision of essays that approached the theme. After that, an opinion research proceeded, with semi-structured interviews, with some of the people who represented the public and private sectors of the organized civil society, related or involved in some metropolitan activity. In general, certain knowledge about the institutional arrangement and its relevance was shown, but there is not a “culture of the regional” in the region. The Goiania Region Metropolitan metropolitan governance, even though it has a “good institutional arrangement”, is considered weak because, practically, it doesn’t work effectively.

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This paper focuses on fresh fish trade networks found in the street markets of Palmas, capital of Tocantins state, Brazil, so as to identify the economic agents involved and the various geographical spaces which interact as a result of these networks. Fresh fish trade in Palmas takes place in distributor warehouses, grocery stores, supermarkets and hypermarkets, fish shops, and fishing communities, but it is street markets that constitute the most popular sale venues. Market sellers establish upstream supply networks with sectors in the fish food system (suppliers in primary and secondary production, distribution, and retail), whose interactions generate connections in Palmas (fishermen, distributors, retailers) on a local scale, as well as connections with locations in Tocantins and Pará states (fishermen, fisheries, cold storage companies) on a regional scale. Sellers also establish downstream trade networks with the end consumer at markets and with establishments in the food and small retail sectors, whose interactions produce mostly local connections, in Palmas and in the Luzimangues district (close to Palmas). Such connections are marked by consumption processes in these urban areas. Key-words: network, fresh fish trade, street markets.

This article aims to demonstrate the connections between regional and academic centralities. The investigations were focused on the changes in Brazilian national territory, contemplating its movements of configuration and reconfiguration. In the article was analyzed the period between 1870 to 1970, because it is known that it held major changes in Brazilian social life and in there definition of its spatial and regional situations. This historical review intents to demonstrate that the academic centrality of Geography in Brazil followed the shift of the political and economic centralities, which moved from the Northeast region to the Southeast region, especially to the state of São Paulo. The article also seeks to bring into light part of the history of Geography that was developed in Bahia and its contributions to the progress of Geography in Brazil considering that it is largely unknown to most of Brazilian geographers.

This article aims to present the possibilities and challenges of the use of the hotel network data for geographic research and perhaps in related areas. The presentation takes place through the use of hotel data in a doctoral thesis about the twin cities of Brasiléia, Epitaciolândia and Cobija. The article shows the strength of such data for research in sub-disciplines of Urban Geography and Regional Geography. The hotels data allow the establishment of inferences as urban functions, mapping flows of various typologies, the regional, national or international influence of the cities, the dependence and interdependence relations between cities and finally, their role in urban networks. The article shows how the information was used in the doctoral thesis and presents the difficulties encountered, pretending to be useful for those who want to investigate urban and regional questions.

The deterritorialization of traditional communities can occur in many ways, going from the use of armed force and the Law to a complex and filled of subtleties process such as the one studied by this article, that reports on a careful research of land for tourism sales and purchasing documents, in a case study carried out in the County of Ilhabela, São Paulo State, Brazil, at the Curral neighborhood/ beach, with the caiçara population. In addition to the documents, this study also carried out qualitative interviews and a bibliographic review. By using observation, interviews, theoretical discussions and analyses, it is possible to apprehend that, in the contemporary world, the seduction involved in the sale of lands which makes the participation in the world of consumption possible, is key to understand this process, highly controversial in the community. On the other hand, the concept of territory seen as group, a community inheritance, can help with the construction of collective projects to prevent deterritorialization.