Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-11T13:57:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTACAO Eubia.pdf: 6072054 bytes, checksum: f792fd06503aa994c3e807d37667c493 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-03-15 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas / As sociedades contemporâneas são caracterizadas por alguns autores como sociedade em rede , configurando um espaço interconectado e integrado, além de desigual, frente ao desenvolvimento técnico-científico, mas mesmo assim organizado em rede. Essa desigualdade implica em uma hierarquização, que por sua vez define o papel das cidades na rede. Na Amazônia Brasileira esta desigualdade consolida determinados aspectos da rede urbana, adequando-se, ou não, aos novos circuitos da economia. A rede urbana do rio Solimões no Amazonas apresenta desigualdades profundas, e é nela que surgem cidades com características específicas. Tefé, cidade escolhida para realizar este estudo, é uma delas. A cidade de Tefé vem (re) produzindo seu espaço em função das novas perspectivas da urbanização acompanhando o crescimento urbano do Brasil. Existem diversos estudos que visam caracterizar a rede urbana Brasileira. Os estudos do IBGE e de grupos de pesquisas tais como o ReCiMe e o NEPECAB, trazem algumas perspectivas analíticas que são debatidas no decorrer deste estudo. Dentre estas ressaltamos a do NEPECAB que caracteriza Tefé como cidade média de responsabilidade territorial . O termo responsabilidade territorial aplicado à cidade indica uma dinâmica particular na rede urbana. É através desta cidade que um determinado trecho da rede urbana é mantido coeso e a vida da e na cidade é preservada. A idéia de que uma cidade tem responsabilidade (funcional, infra-estrutural, étnica, ética) sobre um determinado território ou região, (geográfico e político) mereceu um aprofundamento teórico e metodológico. Neste sentido, procurou-se tecer algumas considerações sobre região, destacando a centralidade de Tefé na rede urbana do rio Solimões, ou seja, na região oeste da calha do Médio Solimões-Amazonas, compreendendo a funcionalidade, em especial da rede comercial (produção e circulação de mercadorias), que a cidade exerce. Para tal e com objetivo esclarecer a função de Tefé na rede urbana do Médio Solimões-Amazonas, a investigação se desenvolveu por meio de levantamentos documentais históricos visando comparar a cidade do passado com a atual, realizou um série de levantamentos em campo que tornasse possível entender a atual dinâmica desta cidade nesta rede. Com o estudo de caso de Tefé surgiram algumas reflexões que buscam aprofundar as discussões sobre cidade de responsabilidade territorial, rede urbana, além de região, centralidade e cidades médias no Amazonas, na Amazônia e no Brasil, contribuindo para o debate na geografia urbana e econômica e por fim da sociedade em rede.

Este trabalho está apoiado na hipótese que considera os polos urbanos e eixos rodoviários elementos estruturantes da organização territorial do estado de São Paulo e que, orientados pela lógica da atividade industrial, constituem uma região qualificada para o desenvolvimento. A análise sobre a relação entre as ações planejadoras e a urbanização paulista comprova que as regionalizações administrativas e a provisão infraestrutural (principalmente rodoviária) gradativamente integraram-se no espaço influenciando a organização do território. Através dessas ações, entre os anos 1930 e 1960, as principais cidades constituíram-se em polos urbanos e as principais rodovias, em eixos rodoviários caracterizando o processo de urbanização na escala urbana e regional. A associação entre os polos e os eixos equipou uma região historicamente mais dinâmica, aqui denominada Região dos Vetores Produtivos, através da permanência das ações planejadoras que a transformaram em um território da rede urbana paulista qualificado às decisões locacionais produtivas. / The hypothesis that guides this work considers urban poles and road axes structural elements of the territorial organization of the state of São Paulo who, guided by the logic of industrial activity, built a qualified region for development. The analysis of the relationship between urban and regional planning and urbanization in São Paulo shows that the administrative regionalization and infrastructural provision (mainly road) gradually integrated in the space and acting in the organization of the territory. Through these actions, between 1930s and 1960s, major cities were set up in urban poles and major highways, in road axes featuring in the process of urbanization in urban and regional scales. The association between the poles and the axes equipped a historically most dynamic region, called Region of Productive Vectors, through the permanence of planners actions that qualified a territory in state urban network to productive locational decisions.

Cette thèse vise l’étude des processus d’émergence, de structuration et de mutation d’un réseau urbain antique depuis la fin de la Protohistoire jusqu’au Moyen Âge dans une micro-région située aux confins des territoires antiques éduens, lingons et séquanes, le Val de Saône. Celle-ci se caractérise par une armature dense d’agglomérations gallo-romaines possédant une somme et une qualité de données inégalée en Gaule, fruit de recherches anciennes et récentes. Alors que ces agglomérations ont été parmi les premières étudiées au cours des années 1980, leur exploitation s’est limitée à l’étude des hiérarchies et des fonctions urbaines durant le Haut-Empire, délaissant la chronologie et l’évolution du système urbain.Le corpus de sites a fait l’objet d’une démarche d’homogénéisation et de cartographie des données grâce à des outils spécialement développés. Pour répondre aux questions d’organisation spatiale et de chronologie, de nouvelles acquisitions d’informations ont été réalisées. Ces données, rassemblées dans des notices et synthétisées à travers une série de descripteurs, permettent de réfléchir sur une meilleure définition de la caractérisation des agglomérations et sur l’étude de leur parcours chronologique.C’est à partir de la typo-chronologie des agglomérations que les dynamiques spatiales, morphologiques et temporelles sont mises en évidence à l’échelle du Val de Saône, puis comparées avec les données du Centre-Est de la Gaule. L’analyse in-terne des agglomérations permet d’appréhender la place et le rôle des composantes principales des occupations comme les parures monumentales, les types d’habitat ou l’artisanat. L’enquête montre l’importance et la variété des agglomérations dans le système de peuplement du Val de Saône depuis la fin de la période laténienne. L’organisation des ré-seaux antiques, issue d’un héritage protohistorique très marqué, et les dynamiques urbaines indiquent des récurrences et des spécificités à chacune des cités.Cette thèse constitue ainsi une synthèse inédite sur l’émergence, le développement et le devenir de ce réseau urbain remarquable, dont la structure est encore nettement discernable aujourd’hui. / The aim of this thesis is to study the processes of emergence, structuring and mutation of an ancient urban network from the end of the Protohistory to the beginning of the Middle Ages in a micro-region located on the edge of the ancient éduens, lingons and séquanes territories, the Saône Valley. This area is characterized by a density of Gallo-Roman small towns with an amount and a high quality of data unequalled in Gaul, as a result of ancient and recent research. While these small towns were among the first studied in the 1980’s, their exploitation was limited to the study of hierarchies and urban functions during the High Empire, neglecting the chronology and the evolution of the urban system.The site corpus has been homogenized and mapped using new tools that were specially developed for that. To meet the expectations of spatial organization and chronology, new information has been gathered. These data, collected in notes and synthesised through a set of archaeological descriptors, allow us to reflect on a better definition of the small towns characterization and on the study of their evolution paths.It is from the typo-chronology of the towns that spatial, morphological and temporal dynamics are highlighted on the scale of the Saône Valley, then are compared to the Central-East of Gaul’s data. The internal analysis of towns makes it possible to understand the place and role of the main components of occupancies such as monumental adornments, habitat types or handicraft. The research shows the importance and the variety of the urban area towns in the settlement system of Saône Valley from the end of the Latenian period. The organization of ancient networks, resulting from a very marked protohistorical heritage, and the urban dynamics indicate recurrences and specificities to each of the cities.This thesis makes an unprecedented synthesis on the emergence, development and future of this remarkable urban network, whose structure is still distinctly discernible nowadays.

Au Paraguay, à partir des années 2000, une reconfiguration du réseau urbain « par le bas » se produit à travers la croissance d'une multitude de petites villes (dont la population est comprise entre la dizaine et la trentaine de milliers d’habitants). Malgré leur taille réduite, celles-ci diversifient leurs activités et se dotent de fonctions qui leur permettent d'étendre leur rayon d'influence. Par conséquent, les villes en question complètent et renforcent une catégorie « intermédiaire » du réseau urbain national dont les composantes sont encore largement méconnues. L’activation de ces centralités n’est pas le résultat de politiques volontaristes d’aménagement du territoire, mais des forces et des inerties du marché. Cependant, tandis que la société paraguayenne se projette en ville et aspire aux conditions de vie citadines, l'appareil économique du pays n'est pas suffisamment générateur d’emplois. La croissance actuelle de villes intermédiaires est révélatrice des profonds changements sociaux qui se produisent au Paraguay et permet d’entrevoir les défis qui se présentent dans le futur, et dont l’action publique devra absolument se saisir. / In Paraguay, from the 2000s, a reconfiguration of the urban network "from below" occurs through the growth of a multitude of small towns (for each, their population is between ten and thirty thousand inhabitants). Despite their small size, they diversify their activities and have functions that allow them to extend their radius of influence. As a result, the cities in question complement and reinforce an "intermediate" category of the national urban network whose components are still largely unknown. The activation of these centralities is not the result of voluntarist policies of spatial planning, but of the forces and inertia of the market. However, while the Paraguayan society projects itself into the city and aspires to a city life style, the economy of the country is not generating enough jobs. The current growth of intermediate cities is indicative of the deep social changes taking place in Paraguay and provides a glimpse of the challenges that lie ahead and, therefore, where public action will be needed. / A partir de la década del 2000, se produce en el Paraguay una recomposición de las categorías inferiores de la estructura urbana a través del crecimiento de ciudades de pequeño porte (entre 10.000 y 30.000 habitantes). A pesar de su tamaño relativamente reducido, estas ciudades asisten a una notable diversificación de sus actividades y funciones, lo que les permite ampliar su espacio de influencia. Por consiguiente, los centros urbanos en cuestión completan et refuerzan un nivel intermedio de la red urbana del país cuyos componentes aún quedan por caracterizar. El surgimiento de dichos polos no es el resultado de políticas voluntaristas de ordenamiento del territorio sino de las fuerzas e inercias del mercado y de la masificación del consumo. Sin contar con un aparato económico generador de empleos suficientes en las ciudades, la sociedad paraguaya aspira a la vida urbana y se proyecta en ella. El fenómeno de crecimiento de ciudades intermedias es revelador de los profundos cambios sociales que operan en el Paraguay y permiten avizorar los retos que se presentan en el futuro así como los desafíos para la acción pública.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:22:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jessica de Almeida Polito.pdf: 4525548 bytes, checksum: ba3c67e377a1dd12d01f77b58db1689d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-12-16 / This paper makes a historical analysis about the formation and restructuring process of the eastern S?o Paulo State, from 17th to the 19th century, by the identification of some networks urban and social that were established because of the economic, political, administrative and technological relevant issues for that period. In this regard, we analyzed only the first two formed and founded nucleus on this region: Mogi Gua?u and Mogi Mirim , which were official connections for this network, frontier and contact zone between S?o Paulo s civilized territory the one known, mapped and where the catholic church made itself present and the sert?o (backcountry) - the territory far away from the sea or a little known area. We will show how the Mogis Binomial worked as a propellant epicenter of urbanity for the sert?o (backcountry) through the urban network that had gradually been forming and becoming larger and complex. The careful analysis to the official documents aiming to, through them, clarify the regional context of land and social disputes, ranking and land control, as well as the and sugarcane plantation impacts on the urban imaginary formation and the influences of each one of these items on the Mogis Urban Network. Therefore, this paper attempted to highlight the dialectical relation between the territory and urban layout, as well as alert for the fact that in the Colonial Brazil, there were also moments in which the control, supervision and land ranking weren t made only by the Catholic Church, sometimes it was possible for the Government and the Church to be responsible for the domain and ranking of these lands. Over collected data, we also relativized the information accounted by Foreign Travelers during the 19th century. We sought to demonstrate that a lot of Brazilian emblematic moments reflected in the Eastern S?o Paulo State, contrasting to the travelers view that the sert?o (backcountry) was an uninformed, unknown, lacking information area, and inhabited by rude and ignorant people . / Este trabalho faz uma an?lise hist?rica sobre o processo de forma??o e reestrutura??o do leste paulista, entre os s?culos XVII e XIX, a partir da identifica??o de algumas das redes urbanas e sociais que se estabeleceram em fun??o das quest?es econ?micas, pol?ticas, administrativas e tecnol?gicas pertinentes ao per?odo. Nesse sentido, detemonos ? an?lise dos dois primeiros n?cleos formados e fundados nessa regi?o: Mogi Gua?u e Mogi Mirim, os quais atuaram como conex?es oficializadas dessa rede, al?m de fronteira e zona de contato entre o territ?rio civilizado paulista aquele j? conhecido, mapeado e onde a Igreja se fazia presente e o sert?o a por??o de terra apartada do mar e pouco conhecida. Buscamos mostrar como o bin?mio das Mogis atuou como um epicentro propulsor de urbanidade para o referido sert?o atrav?s de tal rede urbana que se formou e se tornou gradativamente mais ampla e complexa. A an?lise atenta para as fontes documentais oficiais buscando, atrav?s delas, esclarecer o contexto regional de disputas territoriais e sociais, hierarquiza??o e fiscaliza??o do territ?rio, bem como os impactos da minera??o e da lavoura de cana de a??car na constru??o do imagin?rio urbano e as influ?ncias de cada um desses temas no pr?prio tecido urbano das Mogis. Dessa forma, esta pesquisa buscou ressaltar a rela??o dial?tica existente entre territ?rio e tecido urbano, bem como atentar para o fato de que no Brasil Colonial tamb?m houve momentos em que o controle, fiscaliza??o e hierarquiza??o do territ?rio n?o se deram unicamente em fun??o da atua??o da Igreja Cat?lica, sendo poss?vel Governo e Igreja correr paralelamente pelo dom?nio e hierarquiza??o dessas terras. Frente aos dados levantados, relativizamos tamb?m as informa??es contidas nos relatos elaborados pelos viajantes estrangeiros do s?culo XIX. Procuramos demonstrar que no leste paulista ocorreu os reflexos de v?rios momentos emblem?ticos para o Brasil e S?o Paulo, contrapondo-se ? vis?o desses viajantes de que o sert?o era uma ?rea desinformada, desconhecida, carente de informa??es e habitada por pessoas brutas e ignorantes .

Este trabalho tem por objetivo compreender a transição, ocorrida no território do Triângulo Mineiro, Minas Gerais, nas últimas quatro décadas do século XIX, de uma economia e sociedade organizadas com base em estruturas herdadas do Antigo Regime para o capitalismo. A hipótese desse trabalho é a de que a transição de um modo de produção para outro corresponde a mudanças estruturais nas configurações territoriais, paisagens, redes e técnicas, caracterizando nova formação sócio-espacial. Foram analisadas as transformações ocorridas na configuração territorial, com ênfase na regionalização e rede urbana; na estrutura fundiária, em especial a distribuição e mercantilização de terras; a transição da escravidão para o trabalho livre; as mudanças nos sistemas técnicos e a dinâmica do espaço urbano. Inventários post mortem, recenseamentos, mapas e material colhido em trabalhos de campo, além de vasta literatura foram utilizados como fonte deste estudo, que se fez na perspectiva da geografia regional e da geografia histórica. / This paper aims to understand the transition occurred in Triângulo Mineiro´s territory, Minas Gerais, in the last four decades of 19th century, from an economy and society based on inherited structures of the Ancient Regime to the capitalism. This research proposes that the transition from a production method to another corresponds to structural changes in the territorial shape, landscape, networks, and techniques, which led to a new socio-spatial formation. All the changes were analyzed considering the regional arrangements and the urban network. Also the land structure, specially concerning the land distribution and mercantile process, the slavery status to free work, the transformations undergone in the technical systems and in the urban space dynamic were all considered. Post mortem estates, censuses, maps and collected material in fieldworks, as well as a vast literature were used as study sources. This paper was written from the regional geography and the historical geography perspectives.

Au cours des dernières décennies, le commerce de détail a connu de profondesévolutions. Elles ont largement marqué l’organisation des espaces urbains, et plus largementdes territoires qu’ils polarisent. Cette thèse de doctorat se propose d’aborder la question ducommerce de détail dans un type d’espace urbain particulier que sont les petites villes, enprenant l’exemple de celles du Centre-est de la France. Dans le cadre des mutations dusystème commercial et des territoires sur lesquels il s’inscrit, nous avons posé laproblématique de l’adaptation des petites villes aux changements provoqués par les Secondeet Troisième Révolutions commerciales. Après avoir démontré que les petites villes, en dépitde certaines originalités liées à leur taille et à leur positionnement dans la hiérarchie urbaine,ont parfaitement été intégrées dans les dynamiques récentes de la fonction commerciale et descomportements d’achat, nous avons vu que cette adaptation varie fortement en fonction duprofil démographique, fonctionnel et situationnel des petites villes. La diversité des cas defigure nous a alors amené à nous pencher sur le question du rôle des acteurs publics et privésdans les stratégies locales d’aménagement et de développement commercial, et à laconclusion de la nécessité de coordonner les politiques d’aménagement et de développementcommercial avec celles portant sur les autres éléments du système urbain de la petite ville,afin de renforcer leur efficacité. / During the last decades, retail trade has known some important evolutions. Theyhave left a mark on the urban spaces’ organization, and moreover on the territories polarizedby the towns. This thesis aims to study the issue of the retail trade in a particular type of urbanspace that is the small town, taking the example of the Centre-East of France. Within theframework of the mutations of the commercial system and its territories, we have posed theproblematic of the adaptation of small towns to the changes generated by the Second and theThird Commercial Revolutions. After demonstrating that small towns, despite someoriginalities explained by their size and their position in the urban hierarchy, have beenclearly integrated in the recent dynamics of the commercial function and the customers’behaviour, we have seen that this adaptation vary according to the demographic, functionaland situational profile of the small towns. The diversity of the cases brought us to the issue ofthe role of public and private actors in the local strategies of commercial planning anddevelopment. Our reflection took us to the conclusion of a necessary coordination of retailplanning and development policies with the ones which deal with the other elements of thesmall town’s urban system, in order to improve their efficiency.

La grande vitesse ferroviaire, destinée à réduire les distances-temps entre les grandes métropoles françaises et européennes, conduit à inscrire les espaces intermédiaires dans une situation peu favorable. Fortement polarisé par les grands foyers urbains qui l’encadrent, ce type d’espace est généralement réduit à son unique statut d’aire de transit. Pourtant, la branche Est, premier tronçon du projet de LGV Rhin-Rhône, de par sa dimension régionale, constitue le facteur d’émergence d’un processus de territorialisation de l’aire Rhin-Rhône. Ainsi, l’arrivée de la grande vitesse ferroviaire est à l’origine de la création d’un réseau de villes qui s’étend de Dijon à Bâle. Pour répondre à cette problématique territoriale, l’analyse fine des configurations spatiales, enrichie par l’approche des représentations, permet de voir dans quelle mesure l’aire Rhin-Rhône est, à l’heure actuelle, dépourvue d’une dimension territoriale. Ensuite, l’entrée par les configurations des réseaux de transport et les pratiques de mobilité permettent de voir comment le projet de LGV Rhin-Rhône s’insère au sein de l’aire d’étude. Enfin, les trois formes d’appropriation choisies : les jeux d’acteurs dans la définition du tracé, les projets de valorisation et les stratégies de promotion territoriale associées à la nouvelle offre ferroviaire, visent à montrer comment les perceptions des gains d’accessibilité par les acteurs locaux peuvent conduire à inscrire l’aire Rhin-Rhône dans un processus de territorialisation. Cette recherche met en évidence la difficile adaptation de la grande vitesse ferroviaire à la desserte des espaces intermédiaires. La localisation des nouvelles gares TGV en périphérie des agglomérations franc-comtoises et la construction de deux contournements ferroviaires aux extrémités de la LGV, constituent des freins au développement de la grande vitesse régionale, condition pourtant nécessaire au fonctionnement territorial de l’aire Rhin-Rhône. En plus d’être un facteur du renforcement de la situation intermédiaire de l’aire Rhin-Rhône, la branche Est exacerbe les concurrences et rivalités entre territoires. En témoigne la redondance des projets de valorisation destinés à accueillir des activités tertiaires, les agglomérations, séparées seulement d’une centaine de kilomètres, adoptant des stratégies similaires. Si l’analyse de l’insertion de la branche Est au sein de l’aire Rhin-Rhône souligne la rigidité du modèle français à grande vitesse, ce cas d’étude fournit des pistes de réflexion sur l’élaboration des futurs projets de LGV, dont la réalisation sera étroitement dépendante du soutien financier des collectivités territoriales. / High-speed rail, destined to reduce the times-distances between major French and European cities, tends to push intermediary spaces into a rather unfavorable situation. Strongly polarized by the large urban centers that surround them, these intermediary areas are usually reduced to their sole status of transit areas. However, the Eastern tract, the first section of the LGV Rhine-Rhône project, through its regional dimension, constitutes a factor in the emergence of a territorialization process of the Rhine-Rhone area. Thus, the arrival of high speed rail is responsible for the creation of a network of cities that extends from Dijon to Basel.To address this territorial issue, a detailed analysis of spatial patterns, enriched by a representative approach, allows one to realize how devoid of any territorial dimension the Rhine-Rhône area currently is. A subsequent focus on the configurations of the transportation networks and on human-mobility practices shows how the proposed Rhine-Rhône LGV fits into the study area. Finally, the three forms of appropriation strategies selected; the stakeholders’ interactions in the project delineation, the development projects and the territorial promotion strategies associated to the new rail service, are aimed at showing how perceptions of accessibility gains by local stakeholders can lead to the inclusion of the Rhine-Rhone area into a process of territorialization.This research highlights the difficult adaptation of high-speed rail to the service of intermediary spaces. The location of new TGV stations on the outskirts of Franche-Comté cities and the construction of two railway bypasses at the ends of the LGV, constitute hurdles to the development of a regional high speed network, itself a necessary pre-condition to a territorial operation of the Rhine-Rhône area. In addition to being a factor in the cementing of the intermediary situation of the Rhine-Rhône area, the Eastern tract exacerbates territorial competition and rivalry. This is further shown by the redundancy of development projects designed to accommodate tertiary activities, whereby cities, separated by a mere hundred kilometers, adopt similar strategies. While the analysis of the insertion of the Eastern tract into the Rhine-Rhone area emphasizes the rigidity of the French high-speed model, this case study provides food for thought on the development of future LGV projects, whose implementation will be closely dependent upon the financial support of local authorities.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-01T11:58:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 9895320 bytes, checksum: df7252cc03f7f058ce75a4c24c03427b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-10-18 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This dissertation investigates the formation of the urban network in the Hinterland of Piranhas and Piancó throughout the eighteenth century. The urban network is understood from the urbanizing policy implemented by colonial agents, the State, the Church and the economic agents, that sparked the occurrence of fixed points (villages to indoctrinate the natives, barracks, villages, towns and cities) and communication routes, linked to the flows generated by the expansion process of cattle ranching. The main objective is to check how was the structure of this urban network in the Hinterland of Piranhas and Piancó in the eighteenth century, through the activities of colonization agents. This is a research of historical synthesis that adopted, as the main procedure, an analysis of historiography and written documentation and cartographic on the issue. Was concluded that the formation of an urban network, in Hinterland of Piranhas and Piancó, occurred in the first half of the eighteenth century, linked to the process of War of the Barbarians", resulting in barracks and in villages to indoctrinate the natives; and, in the second half of the eighteenth century, marked by post-war, was implemented a policy of forming villages, initially established in Pombal's Period (1750 - 1777) and conducted to the rest of the century. In parallel, throughout the eighteenth century, was verified a formation of chapels for the installation of settlements, as a result of the interests of landowners in their local setting, through donations of land assets, which gave the initial apparatus for its existence. It is intended to contribute to the study of eighteenth-century urban history of Paraíba from these findings. / A presente dissertação tem por objeto de investigação a formação da rede urbana no Sertão de Piranhas e Piancó ao longo do século XVIII. A rede urbana é entendida a partir da política urbanizadora executada pelos agentes coloniais, o Estado, a Igreja e os agentes econômicos, que proporcionou o surgimento de pontos fixos (aldeamentos, arraiais, povoações, vilas e cidades) e de vias de comunicação, vinculados aos fluxos gerados pelo processo de expansão da pecuária. O objetivo central é verificar como se deu a estruturação dessa rede urbana no Sertão de Piranhas e Piancó no século XVIII, através da atuação dos agentes da colonização. Trata-se de um trabalho de síntese histórica que adotou, como procedimento principal, uma análise da história e da documentação escrita e cartográfica sobre o tema. O resultado identificou que a formação de uma rede urbana, no Sertão de Piranhas e Piancó, ocorreu na primeira metade do século XVIII, vinculada ao processo de Guerra dos Bárbaros , tendo como resultado os arraiais e os aldeamentos de índios em missões; e, na segunda metade do século XVIII, marcada pelo pós-guerra, houve a realização de uma política de formação de vilas, instituída inicialmente no Período Pombalino (1750 1777) e conduzida ao restante do século. Em paralelo, ao longo de todo o século XVIII, foi verificada a formação de capelas para instalação de povoações, pelos interesses dos proprietários rurais em definir seu poder local, através de doações de patrimônios de terras, que dava o aparato inicial para a sua existência. Busca-se, a partir de tais constatações, contribuir para os estudos da história urbana na Paraíba setecentista.

Este trabalho tem por objetivo compreender a transição, ocorrida no território do Triângulo Mineiro, Minas Gerais, nas últimas quatro décadas do século XIX, de uma economia e sociedade organizadas com base em estruturas herdadas do Antigo Regime para o capitalismo. A hipótese desse trabalho é a de que a transição de um modo de produção para outro corresponde a mudanças estruturais nas configurações territoriais, paisagens, redes e técnicas, caracterizando nova formação sócio-espacial. Foram analisadas as transformações ocorridas na configuração territorial, com ênfase na regionalização e rede urbana; na estrutura fundiária, em especial a distribuição e mercantilização de terras; a transição da escravidão para o trabalho livre; as mudanças nos sistemas técnicos e a dinâmica do espaço urbano. Inventários post mortem, recenseamentos, mapas e material colhido em trabalhos de campo, além de vasta literatura foram utilizados como fonte deste estudo, que se fez na perspectiva da geografia regional e da geografia histórica. / This paper aims to understand the transition occurred in Triângulo Mineiro´s territory, Minas Gerais, in the last four decades of 19th century, from an economy and society based on inherited structures of the Ancient Regime to the capitalism. This research proposes that the transition from a production method to another corresponds to structural changes in the territorial shape, landscape, networks, and techniques, which led to a new socio-spatial formation. All the changes were analyzed considering the regional arrangements and the urban network. Also the land structure, specially concerning the land distribution and mercantile process, the slavery status to free work, the transformations undergone in the technical systems and in the urban space dynamic were all considered. Post mortem estates, censuses, maps and collected material in fieldworks, as well as a vast literature were used as study sources. This paper was written from the regional geography and the historical geography perspectives.