The metropolitan scale of analysis revisited: notes on the metropolization process

Authors

  • Tadeu Pereira Alencar Arrais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7154/RDG.2012.0024.0001

Keywords:

metropolização, política, região metropolitana

Abstract

This paper approaches issues related to interpreting the process of metropolization. It analyses the benefits and drawbacks of acknowledging officially-defined metropolitan boundaries as expressions of spatial and political processes. Both the official trajectory and the integration process of Goiás State's metropolitan space are useful in supporting the debate, revealing the limits and possibilities posed by the concept of metropolitan area.

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Author Biography

  • Tadeu Pereira Alencar Arrais
    Mestre em Geografia pela UFG. Doutor em Geografia pela UFF-RJ. Professor Adjunto do IESA e orientador do programa de pesquisa e pós-graduação em geografia, doutorado e mestrado.

Published

2012-12-13

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How to Cite

Arrais, T. P. A. (2012). The metropolitan scale of analysis revisited: notes on the metropolization process. Revista Do Departamento De Geografia, 24, 4-23. https://doi.org/10.7154/RDG.2012.0024.0001