Cidade média e particularidades regionais: a resiliência de Colatina no norte do Espírito Santo
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2025-12-05
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Croce, Rômulo
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Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
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This thesis is part of an effort to understand how medium-sized cities, located in economically peripheral regions, sustain their regional centralities, taking the city of Colatina (ES) as a case study. It starts from the hypothesis that this centrality is sustained by a contradictory process, in which multi-scalar interactions, extended urbanization, and territorial legacies consolidate the role of the medium-sized city, while simultaneously deepening regional inequalities and asymmetries. The investigation adopts a qualitative and multi-scalar approach, articulating historiographical procedures, bibliographic and documentary research, interviews with key agents, field observations, and georeferenced cartographic production. The research results reveal that the maintenance of Colatina's centrality, even in an economically peripheral context and outside the main state economic circuits, is deeply rooted in two main axes: (i) the historical legacies of its socio-spatial formation, which bequeathed the city a strategic position and a lasting regional protagonism; (ii) in the multi-scalar relationships that connect Colatina to nearby and distant urban and economic networks, beyond its immediate region. These aspects manifest themselves in the capacity to resignify technical, social, and infrastructural elements inherited from previous economic cycles, as well as in the historical connections with municipalities in its hinterland, which maintain symbolic, cultural, and functional relationships with Colatina forged over time. The analysis identified that Colatina articulates a centrality sustained by a dialectical process between regional capture — marked by the concentration of specialized equipment and services, the extensive operationalization of the territory, and the consolidation of productive urban-regional systems — and selective insertions into circuits of greater scope. This logic allows the city to form a resilient regional centrality, even if strained by territorial conflicts, asymmetries, and exclusionary dynamics. This reality points to the limits of the resilience of mediumsized cities in non-hegemonic contexts and reinforces the need for planning policies aimed at producing a more equitable regional space.
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Formação socioespacial , Cidades médias , Urbanização extensiva , Resiliência urbana , Colatina