Região metropolitana de Barra de Santa Rosa-PB: questionamentos sobre o seu qualitativo metropolitano.

Abstract

In order to reflect on themes related to Brazilian urban reality, and in particular on metropolitan regions this study deals with normative and institutional theoretical and conceptual issues, and their relations with the empirical reality of the instituted Metropolitan Region of Barra de Santa Rosa in the State of Paraíba. Faced with the absence of a national metropolitan policy, and the lack of a clear definition of the criteria for the constitution of metropolitan areas before 2015 when the Metropolis Statute was sanctioned this resulted in a great diversity of motivations for its creation, varying according to the political interests in each units of the federation, and thus configuring a multifaceted and diverse mosaic of instituted metropolitan regions. Therefore, the aim is to analyze the political-institutional reality the socio-spatial characteristics, and what has of metropolitan qualitative in the Metropolitan Region of Barra de Santa Rosa. In order to reach the aims in addition to performe a bibliographical research, it was mainly decided to analyze the population dynamics in the displacement of people for work and study, and the existing connections between the "mother city" (metropolis) with the cities that are part of its metropolitan area. When analyzing the data and comparing them with the qualitative of what is the metropolitan fact, it was evident that the Metropolitan region of Barra de Santa Rosa does not have the minimum of metropolitan qualitative. Thus, it is concluded that the Metroplitan Region of Barra de Santa Rosa does not coincides with the theoretical-conceptual characteristics and especially with the socio-spatial reality that characterizes a metropolis and its region.