CAMPOS DOS GOYTACAZES: DE UMA CIDADE MONONUCLEADA À MULTI(POLI)CENTRALIDADE

Abstract

The emergence of new centers and the transformation in the intra-urban centrality is a result, among other reasons, of new locational logics of commerce and services companies, which determine to a great extent the location of these new centers, at the same time as these determine the locations of "new" developments. Since the mid-1990s, but with intensification since this century, the multiplication of areas of concentration of commerce and services in the city of Campos dos Goytacazes-RJ has been driven by hegemonic agents of the commercial and services sector, with the progressive increase of those which work on increasingly scales, together with real estate agents and the public power, responsible for changing the pattern of land use and occupation in the city. These agents have forged new areas of concentration and, mainly, changed the flows both in the scale of the city and in the scale of the urban network, that is, there are changes in the roles played by the different areas within the city, including the Center, and also in relation to the role of the city in the scale of the urban network. In this way, the main objective of this article is to understand the process of urban and city restructuring, through which Campos dos Goytacazes has been passing through the analysis of the centers and their respective centralities, having as object of investigation the economic agents of the commercial sectors and services - with their respective degrees of computerization and performance - that, based on new business and spatial logics, related to the current impositions and demands of the hegemonic mode of production, have transformed the intra and interurban centrality of the city, that is, the ongoing processes tend to produce a city where its dynamics and structure is increasingly related to multi (poly) centrality.