DECENTRALIZATION OR CENTRALITY? AN APPROACH OF THE PRODUCTION PROCESS OF SPACE AND URBAN LONDRINA MARINGÃ

Authors

  • José Roberto Machado Universidade Estadual de Maringá Author
  • Márcia Siqueira de Carvalho Universidade Estadual de Londrina Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4025/revpercurso.v5i1.19713

Keywords:

Maringá, Londrina, Urban Space, Decentralization

Abstract

Our intention is to analyze the production in Londrina and Maringá’s urban space, concerning the urban (de)centralization process by means of equipment production, consumption activities and services, in the period of 1990 to 2012. Thus, we propose to understand and analyze why and how the decentralization process occurred due to the formation of one or more urban services or activities nucleus in Londrina and Maringá, and its consequent specialization. Here we highlight the importance of understanding why just now Maringá will enter a deeper decentralization process started by the presence of Catuaí shopping mall (inaugurated in November 2010), as Londrina has been under this process for several years and still is. Then, there are new ways being created in this process denoting more complexity when compared to Londrina.

Author Biographies

  • José Roberto Machado, Universidade Estadual de Maringá
    Doutorando do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia, PGE, da Universidade Estadual de Maringá, UEM; Professor da UNIESP, unidade de Nova Esperança; Bolsista da CAPES.
  • Márcia Siqueira de Carvalho, Universidade Estadual de Londrina

    Docente do Departamento de Geociências da Universidade Estadual de Londrina; Docente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia, PGE, da Universidade Estadual de Maringá, UEM;

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Published

2013-06-25

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2013)

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