This article has the objective of throwing some light onto the recent demographic and socioeconomic processes (between 1970 and 2000) that occurred in most of the municipalities in the State of São Paulo, especially the reversion of the trend toward demographic losses and the growing intra-urban spatial mobility resulting from the inclusion of these municipalities into new forms of flexible accumulation, vis-à-vis the growing unemployment and the increasing impoverishment of the working population.
Population; Urban development; Spatial mobility of the population
