THE PERIPHERY AND METROPOLITAN PROCESS IN BRAZIL AND BAHIA

THE SALVADOR EXAMPLE

Abstract

This article argues the periphery and metropolitan process in Bahia and in Brazil using the Salvador-BA example, approaching topics kike the metropolitan regions creation in national scale, the migratory movements field to city, the industrialization, the raising of “favelas” and the recent phenomena of suburban arise and “metropolitan involution”, observed in Brazilian metropolis. On a second moment, the analyses focus the spatial organization of Salvador and its metropolitan region as well as the social classes distribution in urban and metropolitan space. The conclusion is that, for the Bahia capital social and spatial polarization are phenomena present in all the metropolitan territory and not only in residences production bat also in recreation and work, shopping and services offering. Not at all, even with evident essential public services deficits, a generalized scene of poverty, unemployment and environment problems, the metropolitan popular quarters are central for social and cultural diversity in metropolitan space. And this happens in spite of the concentration of cultural equipments in middle class quarters in Salvador and in the other Metropolitan Region cities.