Mobilidade da produção na metrópole

Abstract

The changes in the production chain, which have been more intense in the last decades, have led to an increase of flows of goods. As that affects transport in general, it also has an impact on the mobility of people and on spatial organization. Those changes, which stem from innovations in the organization of cargo transportation services themselves, have led to the rise of new services, activities and equipment that can be related to socio-spatial processes characteristic to contemporary metropolis and to diferent forms of spatial distribution of economic activities. It is assumed that production and transport arrays, networks and structures have established new forms of polarization in the metropolis; and that such changes are linked to a dynamics of transformation of the metropolitan space. That further confirms the strength of polarization and concentrated articulation in those formations encompassing regions, cities, and city-regions.