FROM URBAN-INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY TO METROPOLITAN-FINANCIAL ECONOMY

Abstract

The primacy of the metropolitan dimension simultaneously to the domination of the financial sphere revolutionizes social space and determines new forms and content to society. Thus, there is a new process of production and regional organization: the metropolitan-financial economy. Given this hypothesis, the space in transition places the imperative on renewal, denial and overcoming categories and concepts: from the city to the metropolis, from urbanization to metropolization, from industrial to financial, from the urban form to the metropolitan form. It is verified that the metropolitan form concerns the network, integration and connection; it denies and reaffirms agglomeration, gathering and meeting, shining light on new simultaneities, which do not erase previous forms, but face them, to converge. Urban Geography needs to advance in the theoretical and practical field of the metropolization and financialization of the world, in search of the new determinations of space posed by the metropolitan-financial era under development.

Key words: Metropolitan-financial era; Metropolization of Space; Network; Connection; Integration