Cette thèse consiste dans l’étude exhaustive des relations de Paris avec les petites villes des vallées fluviales de la Seine et de ses affluents au XVe siècle. Elle s’inscrit dans un champ historiographique inexploré jusqu’à maintenant pour la région parisienne. Il s’agit d’examiner à la fois la domination de la grande ville sur ses voisines et les liens d’interdépendance qui caractérisent leurs rapports. Cette enquête s’attache plus particulièrement aux aspects politico-Administratifs, économiques et sociaux de ces relations et implique de varier les échelles d’analyse en considérant les villes et leurs habitants, la région parisienne et l’ensemble des autres espaces avec lesquels la capitale et les petites villes sont en contact. De la sorte, il est possible d’apprécier ces relations dans toute leur complexité et de mesurer finement l’attraction et le rayonnement de Paris. Le propos est organisé en quatre grandes parties, subdivisées en deux chapitres chacune et illustrées de nombreuses cartes, graphiques et tableaux. La première partie porte sur la caractérisation du semis urbain, de la hiérarchie des villes et de l’espace fluvial. La deuxième examine les fondements et les manifestations du contrôle de l’échevinage parisien sur cet espace et sur ces villes. La troisième interroge l’intégration de ces localités à un espace économique polarisé par Paris et ses habitants. La quatrième, enfin, étudie les rapports des communautés urbaines avec les institutions centrales de la monarchie établies dans la capitale. Il en ressort que ces petites villes subissent effectivement l’influence de Paris mais conservent également une réelle autonomie. / This thesis consists in a comprehensive study of the relationships between Paris and the small towns located on the Seine River and its tributaries in the 15th century. This research lies in the field of urban history, focusing on the Region of Paris, which has been so far neglected by historians. It analyses how Paris dominates its surrounding towns and how connections between the Capital and the small towns gradually led to relations of interdependency. The aim is to investigate more specifically politico-Administrative, economic and social relations by paying attention to the towns, theirs functions, their inhabitants, the Region of Paris and all the other spaces linked to the Capital and the small towns. Thus, this thesis seeks to highlight the whole range of relations that existed between the Capital and the small towns and the influence of Paris. There are four main parts in this thesis. The first part details the number of the towns, the hierarchy between them while focusing on the river basin. The second part describes how the Parisian aldermen took control of the Seine River, its tributaries and the small towns. The third part explains the insertion of the small towns in an economic area dominated by Paris. The last part highlights the relations between the urban communities of the small towns and the royal institutions of the Capital. As a conclusion, this thesis argues that the small towns are under the influence of Paris but also keep a genuine autonomy.

Contemporary towns and cities in developing countries are faced with myriads of challenges. And, scholars have been suggesting various approaches, methods and tools to improve local resilience against these challenges. Some of the approaches and movements that proliferated recently in urban studies are Urban Metabolism, Sustainable Spatial Planning, the specified resilience approach, and the circular economy. Although these movements played an important role in improving local resilience and sustainability in the western world, their impacts on towns and cities of the developing world remains minimal. This is mainly because these movements were conceived and born in western countries and most of them are targeted at solving their own local problems. So, there is a very strong need to contextualize and modify them so that they fit into the existing local conditions in towns and cities of developing countries. In addition, lack of institutions and usable data makes it very difficult to undertake similar studies in countries like Ethiopia. That is why contextualizing these movements and searching resource efficient paths to local resilience and sustainability have become important tasks in recent years. In addition, developing a methodology that helps to operationlize and spatialize these concepts (resilience and sustainability - concepts usually criticized for being too general and normative) is also very crucial.This research, therefore, developed a robust diagnostic and analytical tool to study the nexus between major challenges (in small towns) and their impact on local resilience and sustainability in Ethiopia. The urban metabolism approach is mainly used (as a tool) to understand the nature of these challenges and to diagnose resilience in small towns. It specifically focuses on the flow food and housing construction materials (the two most stressed flows) in the case towns. These case towns are selected to represent the two ends of the sustainable town planning continuum in Ethiopia (Amdework is an organically growing old town and BuraNEST is a new planned town based on principles of sustainability). This research is mainly conducted at three stages: at regional level, at local level and at sub-system level. The first task done to achieve this objective is, therefore, characterization of the role of the case town in the regional urban system. This is done mainly using the urban metabolism approach. The deployment of this tool helped the researcher to pinpoint weak links, unsustainable flows, and vulnerable paths that simultaneously impact local resilience and sustainability in the case towns. This preliminary exploratory research clearly indicated the role of the town in the regional urban system and revealed the two most stressed (but important) sub-systems in the localities: the food and the housing sub-systems.Following this preliminary finding, the research has been narrowed down to the aforementioned two most stressed sub-systems. The food sub-system is first studied using the urban metabolism and the 'specified resilience' approaches. The research adopts a tri-tiered method (resilience at the source, resilience in the chain and resilience in consumption) to investigate local food resilience and metabolism and their relationship with the spatial configuration of the case town. The deployment of this method helps to operationalize and reduce the normative content of the concept (of resilience). This study reveals that urban agriculture is a highly marginalized agenda at all the three stages. Furthermore, the research investigates various bottom-up informal initiatives in the case town and other innovative planning endeavors (such as the planning of BuraNEST) that are aimed at improving sustainability and resilience in the food sub-system. The other focus area of the research is the housing sub-system. The urban metabolism approach, again, is primarily used to characterize, map and quantify the flow of materials used in the construction of residential houses in the town. The research developed a new bottom-up data generation technique to undertake this analysis. This method dominantly relied on estimations and conversions (of traditional measurements to the metric system) to get quantified data that was finally used as an input to develop metabolic models. Models (Sankeys) developed in this research reveal that the vast majority of inputs used in the construction are sourced locally. However, certain recent worrisome trends challenging sustainability have been observed in the housing sub-system due to the increased tendency of transporting important construction inputs from distant sources (mainly due to local construction regulations). The research, on the other hand, found that housing in BuraNEST, a town claimed to have been planned based on principles of sustainability, is more reliant on local sources and recognizes local needs and challenges. However, there are some critical pending questions (related with governance and affordability) that need to be addressed to improve sustainability in the housing sub-system in the long-run. Lastly, the research also investigates planning system challenges in small towns of Ethiopia. This is done mainly because many of the challenges found in the previous two analyses point to the presence of certain systemic problems in the policies, laws and manuals used in the planning of small town of Ethiopia. Such disorientations obviously negatively impact local resilience and sustainability in the long-run. Various definitions, wordings, phrases, and criteria identified in the federal planning law and manual were found to be on a direct collision course with principles of sustainability in many instances. By doing these, this research, therefore, systematically analyzed how the nexus between population pressure, resource flows and planning system challenges impact local resilience and sustainability (in the food and housing sub-systems) in small towns of Ethiopia. More importantly, it successfully spatialized and operationalized critical concepts such as urban resilience and sustainability using a new bottom-up approach. Clarity of the methodology vividly spells out the starting point when dealing with such important topics. This research can, therefore, serve as an important material to other researchers who are interested to study issues related to urban resilience and metabolism in small towns of developing countries. It clearly shows how the urban metabolism (as a tool) can be deployed to diagnose resilience in specific systems and sub-systems of towns and cities. It also provides a step-by-step procedure on how to generate data in data poor contexts and build metabolic models that can be used to study resilience in urban areas. / Les villes contemporaines des pays en développement sont confrontées à une multitude de défis. Les chercheurs ont suggéré diverses approches, méthodes et outils pour améliorer la résilience locale face à ces défis et parmi les approches qui ont proliféré récemment dans les études urbaines, nous pouvons citer le Métabolisme Urbain, l’urbanisme durable, l'approche de la Résilience Spécifiée et l'économie Circulaire. Bien que ces mouvements et ces outils aient joué un rôle important dans l'amélioration de la résilience et de la durabilité locales dans le monde occidental, leur application et leur impact sur les villes des pays en développement sont négligeables. Cela est principalement dû au fait que ces mouvements ont été conçus et sont nés dans les pays occidentaux et que, par conséquent, la plupart d'entre eux visent à résoudre des problèmes qui leur sont propres. Il existe donc un besoin important de contextualiser et d'adapter ces outils, mouvements et méthodologies pour étudier, comprendre et résoudre les problèmes des villes du monde en développement. En outre, le manque d'institutions et de données utilisables rend difficile la réalisation d'études similaires dans des pays comme l'Éthiopie. La recherche de chemins efficaces pour la résilience et la durabilité locale est donc une tâche difficile dans les pays en développement. De plus, il est très important de développer une méthodologie qui aide à opérationnaliser et à spatialiser ces concepts (résilience et durabilité, des concepts généralement critiqués pour être trop généraux et normatifs).Cette recherche a donc permis de mettre au point un solide outil de diagnostic et d'analyse pour étudier le lien entre les principaux défis et leur impact sur la résilience et la durabilité locale dans les petites villes d'Éthiopie. L'approche du métabolisme urbain est principalement utilisée pour comprendre la nature des défis urbains et diagnostiquer la résilience dans les villes concernées. Cette approche se concentre spécifiquement sur les flux des deux sous-systèmes les plus sollicités :les flux de nourriture et de matériaux de construction de logements. Les deux villes étudiées sont sélectionnées pour représenter les deux extrêmes du continuum de la planification urbaine durable en Éthiopie :une nouvelle ville planifiée (BuraNEST) et une vieille ville à croissance organique (Amdework). Cette recherche est organisée selon trois échelles :au niveau régional, au niveau local et au niveau des sous-systèmes. La première tâche effectuée pour atteindre cet objectif a donc été de caractériser le rôle de la ville prise comme cas d’étude dans le système urbain régional, en s’appuyant sur l'approche du métabolisme urbain. Le déploiement de cet outil a permis d'identifier les trajectoires non durables, les flux vulnérables et les activités qui ont simultanément un impact sur la résilience locale et sur la durabilité des villes étudiées. Cette recherche exploratoire préliminaire a clairement souligné le rôle de la ville dans le système urbain régional et a révélé deux sous-systèmes particulièrement sous tension: les sous-systèmes de l'alimentation et du logement.Suite à cette première constatation, la recherche se concentre sur ces deux sous-systèmes. Le sous-système alimentaire est d'abord étudié en utilisant le métabolisme urbain et les approches de « résilience spécifiée ». La recherche adopte une méthode suivant trois niveaux (résilience à la source, résilience dans la chaîne et résilience dans la consommation) pour étudier la résilience alimentaire locale et sa relation avec la configuration spatiale urbaine. Le déploiement de cette méthode permet d’opérationnaliser et de réduire le contenu normatif du concept de résilience. La recherche révéle que l'agriculture urbaine est un programme très marginalisé aux trois stades du métabolisme alimentaire. En outre, la recherche examine diverses initiatives informelles ascendantes dans la ville en question et d'autres initiatives de planification innovantes (telles que la planification de BuraNEST) qui visent à améliorer la durabilité et la résilience du sous-système alimentaire.Le second domaine d'étude de la recherche concerne le sous-système du logement. L'approche du métabolisme urbain est utilisée pour caractériser, cartographier et quantifier le flux de matériaux utilisés dans la construction des bâtiments résidentielles. La recherche développe une nouvelle technique de génération de données ascendantes pour entreprendre cette analyse. Cette méthode repose principalement sur de nombreuses estimations et conversions (des mesures traditionnelles vers le système métrique) pour obtenir des données quantifiées qui peuvent être utilisées comme intrants pour développer des modèles métaboliques. Les modèles (Sankeys) développés dans le cadre de cette recherche ont révélé que la grande majorité des matériaux intrants utilisés dans la construction proviennent de sources locales. Cependant, certaines tendances récentes inquiétantes remettant en cause la durabilité ont été observées dans le sous-système de logement en raison de la tendance croissante à importer d'importants éléments de construction provenant de sources éloignées (principalement en raison des réglementations locales en matière de construction). D'autre part, la recherche a révélé que les logements de BuraNEST, une ville qui déclare avoir été planifiée sur la base des principes de durabilité, dépendent davantage des ressources locales et considèrent les besoins et défis locaux. Cependant, le programme de logement de BuraNEST suscite d'importantes préoccupations en raison de la présence de quelques enjeux la gouvernance et l’économie de la construction des maisons, qui peuvent menacer la durabilité du programme à long terme. Enfin, la recherche s'est également penchée sur les problèmes liés au système de planification dans les petites villes d'Éthiopie. Cela est principalement dû au fait que de nombreuses questions relevées dans les deux analyses précédentes indiquent la présence de certains problèmes systémiques dans les politiques, les lois et les manuels utilisés dans la planification des petites villes d'Éthiopie. De telles désorientations ont évidemment un impact négatif sur la résilience et la durabilité locales à long terme. Dans de nombreux cas, diverses définitions, formulations, phrases et critères identifiés dans la loi et les règles de planification fédérale se sont révélés être en conflit direct avec les principes de durabilité.Par conséquent, cette recherche analyse de manière systématique le lien entre la pression démographique, les flux de ressources et les défis du système de planification qui ont un impact sur la résilience et la durabilité des petites villes d'Éthiopie. Plus important encore, cette recherche a réussi à spatialiser et à opérationnaliser des concepts critiques tels que la résilience et la durabilité urbaines en utilisant une nouvelle approche bottom-up. La rigueur de la méthodologie définit clairement le point de départ lorsqu'il s'agit de traiter des sujets aussi importants. Cette recherche peut donc constituer un matériel important pour les chercheurs qui souhaitent étudier les questions liées à la résilience et au métabolisme urbains dans les petites villes des pays en développement. Elle montre clairement comment le métabolisme urbain, en tant qu'outil, peut être déployé pour diagnostiquer la résilience dans les systèmes et sous-systèmes spécifiques des villes. Il fournit également une procédure étape par étape sur la façon de générer des données dans des contextes de manque d’information ,permettant ainsi deconstruire des modèles métaboliques qui peuvent être utilisés pour étudier la résilience dans les zones urbaines. / Doctorat en Art de bâtir et urbanisme (Polytechnique) / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

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The photographer discusses his work in Reclamation: The Towns of the Virginia Coalfields, a Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibit held at the Tipton Gallery from February 12th through February 23, 2024. The exhibition focuses on coal towns located in the southwestern part of Virginia. The exhibition consists of 20 framed, archival inkjet prints. Each framed work is 36” x 24” and is representative of the artist’s exploration of the towns. A catalog of the exhibit is included at the end of this thesis. Owens examines formal and conceptual artistic influences, both historical and contemporary. Historic and contemporary photographic influences include Dorothea Lange, Victoria Sambunaris, Carol Highsmith, Andrew Borowiec, Stacy Kranitz, Frank Hunter, Mike Smith, and Builder Levy.

A travers l'observation des services publics de base, cette thèse s'intéresse à la réorganisation des pouvoirs politiques et techniques consécutive à la mise en place de la réforme de décentralisation. En Inde, cette question a déjà fait l'objet de plusieurs études de cas en zone rurales et dans les villes métropolitaines. L'objet de ce travail est de compléter ce corpus en le replaçant dans le contexte différencié des petites villes indiennes. Celles-ci ont jusqu'ici peu interpellé l'attention des chercheurs et des planificateurs. Ce désintérêt traduit un biais dans la manière de penser l'urbanisation indienne où la « ville » désigne avant tout des agglomérations métropolitaines, considérées comme les moteurs de la croissance économique, aux dépens du reste de l'Inde urbaine. Pourtant, une part importante de la population urbaine vit aujourd'hui dans ce type de villes et est donc tout autant concernée par les changements introduits par les nouvelles politiques urbaines issues de la décentralisation. Dans le cadre de ce travail doctoral, une enquête a été menée à travers quatre petites villes de 20000 habitants sélectionnées à l'est de l'Uttar Pradesh en interrogeant les hommes politiques, les ingénieurs et les habitants. La recherche empirique s'est appliquée à analyser la formation des gouvernements locaux avec une perspective multi-niveaux pour comprendre les transformations institutionnelles depuis la réforme. Les résultats de l'étude permettent d'obtenir une image du processus d'émergence des municipalités dans les petites villes / This Ph.D research aims to analyse the new political and technical arrangements in small towns governance, especially regarding the management of publics basic services, since decentralisation reforms in India. Various research projects have dealt with these subjects in rural areas and large metropolises but little attention has been paid to the same issues in smaller urban settlements. Yet more than half of the urban population in India lives in these towns. There has been a bias within Indian urban studies against small towns, because the idea of “urban” has always designated large urban settlements. This scientific disinterest translates into a more characteristic way of thinking about the urbanization process and resource allocation in India where big cities have been glorified as part of “Shining India”, while at the same time forgetting the rest of urban India. For this thesis, a sample survey has been conducted in a few selected towns comprising around 20,000 inhabitants in eastern Uttar Pradesh. The fieldwork has focused on urban local bodies and interviews has been conducted conducted with political leaders, government officials appointed at different levels (local, regional and state) and other actors such as engineers. Other interviews have been conducted with citizens as users to verify the information collected on effective service delivery and to understand what their relationships are with elected public servants and service providers. The results of the study gives a good view of the institutional building process consequent to decentralisation reform and the municipality emergence in small towns

Cette thèse a été bâtie sur l’hypothèse que les espaces interstitiels, secteurs en situation de marginalité et faiblement métropolisés, sont plus dynamiques qu’il n’y paraît de prime abord. Notre travail montre que la construction actuelle des statistiques tend à sous-évaluer la réalité urbaine de ces régions. Or, les petites villes sont une des clés du maintien, voire du renouveau, de territoires. Reconstituées selon des limites cohérentes, en tenant compte des communes de banlieue, les petites villes sont toujours des noeuds de résistance dans ces milieux particuliers : 78% d’entre elles sont en hausse démographique et 88% bénéficient d’un marché du travail florissant entre 1999 et 2006. En outre, il apparaît qu’un réseau christallérien structure encore le sud Massif Central, même si des modifications à la base sont survenues. Un constat quasi identique s’observe en Castille/Estrémadure, autre espace interstitiel. L’outil comparatif a permis de mettre en évidence les traits invariants qui décrivent les petites villes, mais également de souligner quelques différences, notamment sur le plan de l’aménagement du territoire. Ceci nous amène à une réflexion plus poussée sur les politiques publiques françaises. Certaines villes ont décliné, pour maintes raisons, et n’assurent plus une fonction d’organisation et de commandement de l’espace. Cette situation interroge les politiques publiques actuelles menées, notamment leur logique égalitaire. La solution ne consisterait-elle pas plutôt en une politique volontariste d’aménagement du territoire à destination, prioritairement, des villes les plus porteuses d’avenir, dans le cadre d’un renforcement des Régions ? / This thesis is founded on the hypothesis that interstitial spaces, i.e. peripheral andless citified zones, are more vibrant than they seem at first glance. Our research shows that the way current statistics are constructed tends to underestimate the urban reality of these regions. However, small towns play a key role in maintaining and even renewing territories. Reconstructed according to coherent borders, by taking into account suburban communities, small towns consistently represent pockets of resistance in these special environments : 78%are expanding demographically and 88% benefitted from a thriving labour market from 1999 to 2006. Moreover, it seems that a Christallerian network is still shaping the southern part ofthe Massif Central, even if basic changes have occurred. And almost identical phenomenonwas observed in another interstitial space, Castile/Estremadura. A comparative tool enabledus to reveal the invariant traits that describe small towns, but also to emphasise several differences, notably in terms of land management. This led us to examine French publicpolicy more closely. Certain towns have declined, for a multitude of reasons, and no longer fulfil the function of organising and controlling space. This situation challenges current public policies, notably their egalitarian rationale. Would it not be better to reinforce regions by adopting aproactive land management policy focused on the towns with the most promising future ?

The topic of the thesis is Small towns such as peripheral centers of rural areas. There are analyzed tree sets of issues in the empirical part: Specific characteristics of the small town in the formation and activities of local self-government in Vodňany, involvement of Vodňany to the intermunicipal cooperation, the role of municipalities as a regional center and impact of the reform of the public administration in Vodňany. There are managed to prove specific characteristics in the number of person without political affiliation and unusual post-election coalition. By selected indicators were found that Vodňany fulfills role of peripheral centers and according to the SWOT analysis were found opportunities for future development in the monitored area. The objectives of the reform of local public administration were largely fulfilled in Vodňany.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:00:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2714.pdf: 3833341 bytes, checksum: 535969dff280ee389c156b17aeeb3ba4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-11-24 / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / The present work aims to elaborate an acquaintance about the social and spatial inequalities still few studied in non-metropolitan urban realities, specifically in small towns. Therefore this dissertation attempts to weave some considerations about the production of urban spaces in São Paulo small towns, examining the practices and actions of the producers agents of the urban space, which contribute to an unequal and excluding social-spatial formation, making a reflection from a study case in Capão Bonito, Buri and Ribeirão Grande, in order to achieve an analysis that allows to understand how public and private spheres and the civil society contribute in different ways to the unequal production of urban spaces, seeking to identify, in different perspectives, how exclusion is manifested in these urban realities. Thus, we seek to contribute to a deeper theoretical understanding of excluding processes in small towns in São Paulo State. The concept of spatial deconstruction is used as an analytical instrument to interpret space production and this research was made feasible by a bibliographic gathering, fieldwork and collection, data analysis and systematization that allowed a spatial reading of exclusion to indicate in different perspectives, how the phenomenon manifests itself both in the intra-urban scale and in the intercity scale. For this purpose we seek to contextualize the small towns from the economical aspects linked to the urbanization process, through what is possible to verify the constitution of Brazilian urban network guided by the competition between cities. Then reflect if the small towns, in this context, are excluding territories and emphasize the importance of thinking about solutions, mainly in territorial management and integrated urban network, turning possible to minimize the socio-spatial inequalities that afflict small towns. / O presente trabalho visa elaborar um conhecimento a respeito das desigualdades sociais e espaciais, ainda pouco estudadas, em realidades urbanas não metropolitanas, mais especificamente em cidades pequenas. Esta dissertação procura, portanto, tecer algumas considerações a respeito da produção do espaço urbano em cidades pequenas paulistas, analisando as práticas e ações dos agentes produtores do espaço urbano, que contribuem para uma formação sócio-espacial desigual e excludente, realizando uma reflexão a partir de um estudo de caso em Capão Bonito, Buri e Ribeirão Grande, a fim de concretizar uma análise que permita entender como as esferas pública e privada e a sociedade civil contribuem de diferentes maneiras para a produção desigual do espaço urbano, buscando identificar, em diferentes perspectivas, como a exclusão se manifesta nestas realidades urbanas. Desse modo, buscamos contribuir para um aprofundamento teórico da compreensão dos processos excludentes em pequenas cidades paulistas. O conceito de desconstrução espacial é utilizado como um instrumento de análise para interpretação da produção do espaço e para viabilização da pesquisa foi realizado um levantamento bibliográfico, trabalho de campo e coleta, análise e sistematização de dados, que permitiram uma leitura espacial da exclusão para indicar, em diferentes perspectivas, como o fenômeno se manifesta, tanto na escala intra-urbana quanto na interurbana. Para tanto procura-se contextualizar as cidades pequenas a partir dos aspectos econômicos atrelados ao processo de urbanização, por meio do qual é possível verificar a constituição da rede urbana brasileira pautada na competição entre as cidades. Daí pensar se as cidades pequenas, neste contexto, são territórios da exclusão e salientar a importância de se pensar em soluções, principalmente de gestão territorial e de rede urbana integrada, que possibilitem minimizar as desigualdades sócio-espaciais que afligem as cidades pequenas.

Submitted by Viviane Lima da Cunha (viviane@biblioteca.ufpb.br) on 2016-04-08T11:27:58Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 4082892 bytes, checksum: 253a6745c4b8f3307265d4e274755cf7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-08T11:27:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 4082892 bytes, checksum: 253a6745c4b8f3307265d4e274755cf7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-27 / This study aimed to analyze the centrality exerted by the city of Mamanguape in the microregion of North Coast, under the perspective of teaching higher education. To this end, we seek, in the course of research elaboration, to reflect on the relationships between Mamanguape and other cities of the North Coast microregion; to understand the centrality of Mamanguape (PB) in different historical periods and to investigate the major changes occurred in urban space of the city after the UFPB Campus IV implementation. Despite the intense influences of metropolis over other cities belonging to a given region, currently it is noticeable the emergence of new centers of centrality that are not necessarily cities of medium and large size and this comes instigating many researchers to focus their studies for these regions. Mamanguape, for example, even classified as a small town has always presented a dynamic and significant centrality, what makes the other cities of the the North Coast microregion have a close relationship with it. Based on these objectives and context, this work was structured in three chapters and it was necessary to survey the theoretical and methodological sources on the city, centrality, as well as of reflections for investigation of small towns. For this, To this end, our analysis came from the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of small towns and centrality presented by Maia (2009), Fresca (2010), Santos (1979), Corrêa (1999, 2004), Lefebvre (1999), Villaça (2009) and Spósito (1998). The research allowed us to state that the arrival of the Campus IV in Mamanguape intensified its centrality in the microregion. It was identified that the majority of students are coming from the municipalities of the North Coast which narrowed their relationship with them, because lot of people started to circulate in the city to seek higher education which resulted in the change / heating of other sectors that are not necessarily connected to the university. / O presente trabalho teve por objetivo analisar a centralidade exercida pela cidade de Mamanguape (PB) na microrregião do Litoral Norte, sob a perspectiva do ensino superior de educação. Para tanto, procuramos, no decorrer da elaboração da pesquisa, refletir sobre as relações existentes entre Mamanguape e as demais cidades da microrregião do Litoral Norte; compreender a centralidade de Mamanguape (PB) em períodos históricos distintos e averiguar as principais mudanças ocorridas no espaço urbano da cidade após a implantação do Campus IV da UFPB. Apesar de ser intensa a influência das metrópoles sobre as demais cidades pertencentes a uma dada região, atualmente é perceptível o surgimento de novos núcleos de centralidade que não são necessariamente cidades de médio e grande porte e isso vem instigando muitos pesquisadores a direcionar seus estudos para estas. Mamanguape, por exemplo, mesmo classificada como cidade pequena sempre apresentou uma dinâmica e centralidade consideráveis o que faz com que as demais cidades da microrregião do Litoral Norte tenham uma estreita relação com a mesma. Partindo desses objetivos e contextualização, este trabalho foi estruturado em três capítulos e para isso foi necessário o levantamento de fontes teóricas e metodológicas sobre cidade, centralidade, bem como, de reflexões para investigação das pequenas cidades. Para tanto, nossa análise partiu do embasamento teórico-conceitual de cidades pequenas e centralidade apresentado por Maia (2009), Fresca (2010), Santos (1979), Corrêa (1999, 2004), Lefebvre (1999), Villaça (2009) e Spósito (1998). A pesquisa permitiu afirmar que a chegada do Campus IV à Mamanguape intensificou sua centralidade na microrregião. Foi identificado que a maioria dos estudantes é oriunda dos municípios do Litoral Norte o que estreitou sua relação com estes, pois, grande quantidade de pessoas passou a circular na cidade em busca do ensino superior o que acarretou na mudança/aquecimento de outros setores que não necessariamente estão ligados a universidade.