Institucionalização metropolitana sobre espaços não metropolitanos: o caso da Região Metropolitana da Grande São Luís

Abstract

The study refers to the phenomenon of Brazilian metropolitan institutionalization, intensified in recent decades, even when the condition of the metropolitan area in question is controversial. This occurred in the case study: the Metropolitan Region of São Luís (MRGSL). Established since 1989, this planning area has not had its administrative proceedings carried out, but it was still the subject of political interest. Analyze the purpose, implications and possible institutionalization of this formed the central research objective, achieved through bibliography and documentary surveys, interviews and field observations. Based on the theoretical approach that considers space as a product and necessary condition for the realization of a given society, the analysis of Greater St. Louis discussed the implications borrowed from institutional and spatial condition. The results demonstrate that the creation of RMGSL may even have been motivated by the possibility of serving as an instrument of control of a federated entity over others. But such a possibility / capacity today is restricted due to the new political and institutional conditions of the post-1988. Once we understand this, there is a greater defense by metropolitan institutionalization. Expectations do with it greater prioritization on the part of the government, on a metropolitan region, further enhance this quest for "metropolis" . In addition, a number of regional issues (inter) in Greater St. Louis metropolitan institutionalization has promoted as an alternative, if not the only, at least the best.