Abstract

CARVALHO, Inaiá Maria Moreira de  and  PEREIRA, Gilberto Corso. Dynamics of a Peripheral Metropolis in Brazil. Estud. demogr. urbanos [online]. 2010, vol.25, n.2, pp.395-427. ISSN 2448-6515.  https://doi.org/10.24201/edu.v25i2.1355.

This article analyzes the recent evolution of the socio-spatial segregation and urban configuration of the city of Salvador, in light of the debate on the transformations of metropolises within globalized capital. Although it is a well-known fact that large cities end up being absorbed by globalization, the text stresses the fact that the effects of this process are not uniform nor do they converge in a single model of a city. It is essential to consider the historical moment of each of them, their institutions, actors and local political decisions within a dynamic defined by continuity/transformation, in which what already existed conditions the emergence of what is new, which in many cases, had already begun to be shaped in the past. Through the demonstration of the configuration of an extremely unequal, segregated metropolis, and the extent to which the transformations have aggravated these alterations over the years, this review of the case of Salvador proposes offering some reflections to provide a better understanding of the effects of globalization on major Latin American cities.

Keywords : metropolis; socio-spatial segregation; urban structures; urban transformations; Brazil.

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