Abstract
The article organizes general meanings of the socio-spatial formation of the Vale do Paraíba and north coast integrated to the metropolization in the context of São Paulo, the historical experience of regional planning and the current normative of the political-institutional organization of a metropolitan region. Aiming to identify the objectives of the integration principle inherent to the Metropolis Statute, questions, hypotheses and considerations about the relations the state and society and public functions of common interest are the results and conclusive conclusion of this reflection in order to emphasize the proper promotion of the academic debate, extended to diverse social agents, about the regional development and the socially necessary and constructed planning.
Key words:
metropolization; Vale do Paraíba and North Coast of São Paulo; territorial policy; urban and regional planning; regional integration
Source: Elaborated by Daniel José de 
Source: Elaborated by Daniel José de Andrade. Data Obtained from IBGE, 2010; DNIT, 2013 and CEEIVAP, 2019.
Source: Elaborated by Daniel José de Andrade. Data Obtained from EMPLASA, 2014.
Source: Elaborated by Daniel José de Andrade. Data Obtained from CODIVAP, 1971; MACRO-EIXO, 1978; MAVALE, 1992 and EMPLASA, 2012.
Source: Elaborated by Daniel José de Andrade. Data Obtained from MAPBIOMAS, 2016.