Desafios e tendências dos estudos sobre cidades pequenas no Brasil

Abstract

The objective is to present theoretical reflections on the theory of urban studies focus on taking small towns from the consideration of the scale and spatial context in Brazil. As methodology was part of the Literature Review on small towns of studies in urban studies. In the second part we take the scale from which we conceptualize the small towns from the point of view of the structure of the urban network as the perspective of urban space. Thus we define two spatial contexts - urban-industrial and agribusiness - to address the small towns that enables new ways of conceptualizing this type of town in Brazil.