The urban net restructure of Bahia’s west region and its social and spatial organization during the beginning of 21ST century

Abstract

This paper has as mais goal to comprehend the current social and spatial organization of Bahia’s west region’s urban network, highlighting favorable Barreiras’ geographic position and the rising of Luís Eduardo Magalhães city, to understand the urban roles of this amount of centers, in the beginning of 21st Century. Recombining elements of the urban network of West Baiano, resulting from social, political and economic processes involved in the insertion of modern agriculture in the cerrado region, occurred in the last decades, which implied a quantitative and qualitative urbanization in the traditional centers and in the new agglomerations, it’s possible to achieve, intelligibly, the spatial pattern of the set of functionally articulated centers of this particular type of network.