Região metropolitana de Cajazeiras- PB: arte, fato ou artefato?.

Abstract

The process of urbanization in Brazil had a strong acceleration since the 1950s, mainly due to the development of industrialization in the country. Faced with this fact, we aim, with this research, to understand the real motivations and which criteria were used for this institutionalization. We start from a bibliographical survey and then proceed with a semi-structured interview. One of the consequences of this urbanization, it was the process of metropolization, which in turn began to be established in the 1970s, under the military regime, nine metropolitan areas were established, these were strategic spaces for national geopolitics. With the re-democratization of the country and the new Federal Constitution of 1988, the union delegated to the federal states the right to establish new metropolitan regions, without defining any criteria that could be used to establish such proposals. Faced with the absence of these criteria, many states created and / or institutionalized metropolitan areas that did not have characteristics related to the metropolitan fact. Among these are the Paraíba, located in the Northeast, it has a total of twelve metropolitan regions instituted under a complementary law, among these and the target of this research, is the Metropolitan Region of Cajazeiras. Located in Alto Sertão Paraibano, it presents a total absence of metropolitan aspects according to quantitative data for first order displacements and the socio-spatial reality. From the database of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) we have obtained the conclusion that the motivations for institutionalization and the adopted criteria do not have consonance neither with the literature on the subject nor with the current legislation.