Transport and territorial concentration in Latin America: recent trends

Authors

  • Carlos Martner Peyrelongue

Abstract

The paper sees the tendancy towards territorial concentration or dispersal as dialectical processes in the outlying nations and this as being due to global economic restructuring, technological change and alterations in internal models for development coming together at one and the same time. Such centripetal and centrifuga forces are here seen as bringing thorough going territorial systems into existance and to be aided in this by transport and communications networks. The study of these new spatial organizing forms supported in their growth by transport systems is here seen to call for new ways of interpreting the same that would go beyond the conceptual limitations of functionalism as expressed by now obsolte analytic formulae such as, «town and country» amongst others when dealing with dichotemies like those now being met. The paper makes an overall analsis of recent territorial concentration (and dispersal) tendencies in Latin America and insists on the role of transport systems in these. The author also draws atention to the theoretical and conceptual challenge that such new tendencies in latin american territorial organization represent.

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Published

1996-12-26

How to Cite

Martner Peyrelongue, C. (1996). Transport and territorial concentration in Latin America: recent trends. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, (110), 651–661. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/84342

Issue

Vol. XXVIII, núm. 110 (1996)

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Copyright (c) 1996 Carlos Martner Peyrelongue

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