Organização socioespacial da rede urbana do Oeste baiano

Abstract

This search intents to comprehend the spatial standard organization of the urban net in Bahia's West region, during the beginning of 21st Century, moving from rising, evolution and structure questions that touches the amount of centers functionally articulated between each other. To satisfy these questions, it's necessary having a qualitative, diachronic and periodizited approach, based on elements from historical and descriptive analysis methods, whose accomplishment is made of bibliographic review and data interpretation (quantitative and cartographic data) to reach a visible and understandable perception of Bahia's West urban net in 21 Century threshold. It was possible to verify three composition moments of this private net: the first one, related to the formation of a basic dendritic standard, where Barra's nucleus was carrying out the regional control because of its favorable geographic position especially through the huge regional circulation based on the fluvial transport, subsuming lower cores and different from each other in rising, sizes, functions and interactions, by the end of 19th century; the second, that reveals a low-complexity locality standard, with a relative rise of Barreiras, that, with the new geographic position and the new urban functions acquired by this core until the 80's, and Barra's decline; the third, talking about the end of 20th Century and beginning of 21st Century, and this was the breakdown moment with the pre-established pattern resulting from the formation of a medium complexity multiple-circuit net, based on dimensional, functional and spatial structures and the rising of Luís Eduardo Magalhães, an urban center that comes from the field capitalistic dynamic. The recent transformations in the Bahia's West urban net bring new discussions about complementary or diverging relations between Luís Eduardo Magalhães and Barreiras.