May (1997MAY, N. From territorial production systems to metropolitanization: ten years of research in France, In: MOULAERT, F.; SCOTT, A. J. (eds.). Cities, enterprises and society on the eve of 21st century. London: Pinter, p. 57-77, 1997.) |
Set of processes that favor the concentration of populations and activities in the largest urban complexes, the only ones capable of offering a critical mass of attributes that have become decisive. |
Claval (2003CLAVAL, P. Métropolisation et globalisation. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2003. ) |
Consequence of the globalization of the economy due to the rapid progress, from the mid-1970s, of transport, telecommunications, and technologies. |
Haeringer (2000HAERINGER, P. L’economie invertie. Mégapolisation, pauvre té majoritarie et nouvelle économie urbaine. Paris: Ministère de l’Equipement/Centre de Prospective et de veillescientigique, 2000.) |
Movement of concentration of economic power in several cities (...) movement of concentration of people in increasingly vast urban basins (...) dissemination of urban space. |
Dolez and De Paris (2004DOLEZ, B.; PARIS, D. (org.). Métropoles em construction territories, politiques et processos. Paris: l’Harmattan, 2004. ) |
Advancement of the metropolization process as a new system of spatial development that emerges as a conceptual support for development dynamics. |
Lencioni (2011LENCIONI, S. A metamorfose de São Paulo: o anúncio de um novo mundo de aglomerações difusas. Revista paranaense de desenvolvimento, Curitiba, n.120, p.133-148, 2011.) |
The process of metropolitanization of space is understood as a higher phase of urbanization. In this context, the tendency of large companies to delegate part of their command to branches spread across several countries. In fact, to improve their competitiveness, multinationals entrust their subsidiaries to local administrators, as they are able to understand more clearly the specificities of management and production methods. |
Ferreira (2014FERREIRA, A. Metropolização do espaço, tensões e resistências: entre espaços de controle e controle do espaço. Scripta Nova. Revista Electrónica de Geografía y Ciencias sociales, n. 493, v. 55, p. 1-17, 2014.) |
The metropolization of space as a process based on the factors: intensity of flows of people, goods and capital; management concentration; growth of services, demand for intangible labor (scientific development); construction of a way of living and consumption in the contemporary metropolis. |
Benko (2002BENKO, G. Mundialização da economia, metropolização do mundo. Revista do Departamento de Geografia da USP, São Paulo, n. 15, p. 45-54, 2002. Doi: 10.7154/RDG.2002.0015.0005 https://doi.org/10.7154/RDG.2002.0015.00...
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Thus, we have “metropolization” as a process of the world economy, with nodal points that obviously propagate the globalization of the economy, and, therefore, the power of the metropolis in the current world is evident in privileged places where “[...] growth, power and wealth [...] increasingly concentrate in a limited number of large hubs” |
Moura (2013MOURA, R. Configurações espaciais da metropolização brasileira. Revista eletrônica de estudos urbanos: e-metropolis, n. 13, 2013.) |
Metropolization is associated with the densest and most articulated form of urban-regional compositions, whose concentration of population and activities (especially those of greater complexity) triggered throughout history and in a given time-space, under the action of different elements and socioeconomic conditions, as well as the performance of specific policies that emerge on a global scale. |