The Brazilian regional issue as determinant for understanding the metropolization process in the 21st century

Abstract

Brazil has historically presented a complex regional issue. Our general objective is to analyze the relationship between the Brazilian regional problem and the process of metropolization in our country in the 21st century, connecting to the dynamics of productive restructuring, urban concentration and concentrated deconcentration. We consider both the theoretical debate on the uneven development of capitalist relations in the country and data which denote the concentration process that has been established throughout the last decades. We started from a bibliographic review and data collection from the IBGE. The metropolization of space in the context of the Brazilian regional issue reaffirms structural unevenness, exacerbating the centralization of capital in the Southeast region and further aggravating the challenges of overcoming inequalities.

Keywords:
uneven development; regional analysis; concentrated deconcentration