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The Rio/São Paulo Extended Metropolitan Region: A quest for global integration

In: Globalization and Urban Development

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  • Hamilton Tolosa

    (Candido Mendes University)

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This paper explores whether the Rio/São Paulo Extended Metropolitan Region, an area with 36 million and accounting for one-third of Brazil’s GNP, can successfully integrate into the global economy. Analysis of private investment projects in different sub-regions over the period 1995–2002 suggests that most of the investments are in high-tech or average technology rather than in low technology projects. Decentralization into the Paraiba Valley appears to be taking place rapidly. However, in the region as a whole, severe imbalances between the Rio and the São Paulo remain, and these are an obstacle to the region’s attempt to climb up the global urban hierarchy rankings.

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  • Hamilton Tolosa, 2005. "The Rio/São Paulo Extended Metropolitan Region: A quest for global integration," Advances in Spatial Science, in: Harry W. Richardson & Chang-Hee Christine Bae (ed.), Globalization and Urban Development, pages 125-146, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-3-540-28351-5_9
    DOI: 10.1007/3-540-28351-X_9
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    1. J Miguel Kanai & Seth Schindler, 2019. "Peri-urban promises of connectivity: Linking project-led polycentrism to the infrastructure scramble," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 51(2), pages 302-322, March.

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