THE RECENT METROPOLIZATION IN SANTA CATARINA

IS IT A GEOGRAPHICATERRITORIAL PROCESS OR A POLITICIAN-ADMINISTRATIVE LIMIT?

Authors

  • Wendel Henrique Universidade Federal da Bahia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.9771/1984-5537geo.v3i0.3045

Keywords:

Metropolitan Region, Greater Florianópolis, Urban Geography

Abstract

In Santa Catarina State (South Brazil), after Brazilian Constitution, 06 Metropolitan Regions had been created trying to improve urban and regional structure in a ideological and unreal modernization. We elaborate a diagnosis of the metropolitan process, integration degree and urban structures of Greater Florianópolis and it‘s central agglomeration (Florianópolis, São Jose, Palhoça and Biguaçu), as well as the difficulties to implement a Metropolitan Region in Santa Catarina State. We use, for this purpose, statistics of the cities from 1991 and 2000 and the Atlas of Human Development in Brazil. The Greater Florianópolis illustrates that in Santa Catarina exists a lack of conceptual definition and a complex juxtaposition of regional divisions, overlapping some laws. The Greater Florianópolis has a strong physical process of conurbation and a medium functional integration (Florianópolis is dependent of Curitiba and Porto Alegre). We verify that the institutionalization of the Metropolitan Region of Florianópolis, as well the other five in the Santa Catarina State, was based on political criteria and not in geographical definitions.

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Author Biography

Wendel Henrique, Universidade Federal da Bahia

Professor Adjunto do Departamento e Mestrado de Geografia, Universidade Federal da Bahia.

Published

2008-09-02

How to Cite

Henrique, W. (2008). THE RECENT METROPOLIZATION IN SANTA CATARINA: IS IT A GEOGRAPHICATERRITORIAL PROCESS OR A POLITICIAN-ADMINISTRATIVE LIMIT?. GeoTextos, 3. https://doi.org/10.9771/1984-5537geo.v3i0.3045

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