Ciudades intermedias: alcances de la denominacion: Santa Fe-Paraná ¿en el inicio de la consolidación metropolitana?

Abstract

The relevant characteristic of the case Santa Fe-Paraná is its double centrality with two intermediate cities, forming an urban system that could be called as "Metropolitan" thanks to the presence of the highly interrelated headers, its self-management capacity to undertake infrastructure facilities of big magnitude, urban overflows of high functional specificity and a sort of progressive institutional and administrative joints between corresponding jurisdictions. 2010 Census results show that the region has surpassed one million inhabitants. This situation is asking for a deeper insight, to understand their status at the time that such quantitative "leap" occurs. We may speak of the continuity of a transition from the monocentric city towards an organizational model in which can be defined patterns in its process of territorial restructuring that clearly involves both central cities; the integration of new areas to agglomeration and the consolidation of some metropolitan sub-centers with capacity to influence the integral structure.