Cities in the Amazon, Territorial Systems and the Urban Network

Abstract

Starting from theoretical premises on urban networks in the Amazon that highlight the incomplete character of the cities' economies and their unconsolidated hinterlands, this proposal discusses the Urban Riparian Territory System (STUR), which is dynamized through navigation and belongs to the grassroots economy. Data from Parintins (AM), evidences the distribution of industrialized goods to surrounding areas and supply of the urban market with regional resources. The STUR also affects the structuring of intraurban space forming low-income neighborhoods, shaping riverfronts that function as multireticular nodes. There is a complex interaction with the dominant territorial system linked to commercial capital, showing the dual and complementary character of this grassroots economy.

Abordagem Territorial Do Desenvolvimento: Categorias Conceituais E Pressupostos Metodológicos

“…A final contribution is that of Bartoli (2018a;2018b), who proposes a methodological approach in the form of an "urban-riverside territorial system" (STUR), converging with the territorial approach, to understand the dynamics of local networks of subjects, who through river navigation they interconnect and overlap the urban with the riverside, complementing the local economy. These are networks of subjects who use the city to build collective projects, with a certain territorial identity, producing territories of influence, through territorialities, forming new capillarity's from the urban sphere, integrating the process of production, circulation, commercialization, and consumption of products from nearby or distant riverside areas.…”

“…The methodological approach in the form of STUR proposed by Bartoli (2018a;2018b) facilitates the analysis of contexts with specific characteristics, such as isolated territorial sections of urban centers, the hierarchical position in the urban network, the presence of engineering systems that facilitate integration and flows with more dynamic areas, the composition of local capitals and types of fractions of elites, power networks, history of popular struggles and presence of socio-territorial movements, etc. That requires a range of "regionalized" methodological proposals, which take into account such geographical situations.…”