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SALVADOR METRÓPOLE NA ERA GLOBALIZADA Angela Franco
Palavras-chave : Competividade e globalização. Periferia metropolitana. Segregação sócioespacial. Crise urbana. Região Metropolitana de Salvador. Abstract This paper analysis the role of the city of Salvador, Bahia, nowadays, starting from the identification of the main movements that make up the logic of the globalized era. With regard to cities, especially those on the periphery of the world system, this article highlights the changes on competitiveness among businesses and places, as well as those related to the impacts resulting from adjustments on the metropolis, transformed itself in epicenter of the contemporary urban and social crisis. In such a context, Salvador and its metropolitan region perform a twofold problem: the new dilemmas brought by the so called era of flexibility and the ones that come from its own historical heritage, setting a challenge that transcends mere consensus on economic growth and stands in the field of the constitution of citizenship. Keywords: Competitiveness and globalization. Metropolitan periphery. Social and space segregation. Urban crisis. The Metropolitan Region of Salvador.
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