Abstract
The issue of this study points to a concrete object, whose reference is the configuration of an internalized urban network in the Brazilian Northeast. To understand this, we studied the formation of the network of cities in the region, considering the urbanization of the territory, until the last decades. We used the theoretical contribution in bibliographic readings of works that deal with the theme as in Azevedo. We analyzed the transformations in the territory accompanied by the restructuring of the economy, the growth of the number and size of cities and the representative increase of the urban roles in the territorial division of labor. We identified in Northeast Brazil an internalized urban network organized and dynamic, with the diffusion of new urban centralities far from the great centers of the region.
Keywords:
Urbanization of the territory; New centralities; Northeast Cities
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Source: 2010 Population Census (IBGE, 2011). Author's organization, Jun., 2015. Note: For the preparation of this figure, with the population scale (horizontal bars) of the northeastern cities, I considered the urban population of the seven largest cities in each state, based on the latest data from the Demographic Census of the state. IBGE (2011). Therefore, I excluded the cities that are attached to the headquarters of the metropolitan areas or urban agglomerations of state capitals. The presentation is organized in a decreasing way, based on the population size of the state capitals, which, in this case, are the largest.
Source: 2010 Population Census (IBGE, 2011); Observatório de Metrópoles (2010). Organization and cartography by Josué A. Bezerra, Jun., 2016. For this representation, I considered the metropolitan areas or urban agglomerations of the Northeast that have in their headquarters the state capitals. For comparative data by Federation Unit, the municipality of Timon (Maranhão), which is on the left bank of the Parnaíba River and has a total population of 155,396 inhabitants. (IBGE, 2011), was not accounted for as an entity of the Integrated Development Region of Greater Teresina (Piauí).