Áreas Metropolitanas de Belém e Brasília: novos recortes para análise

Abstract

In the globalized scenario of contemporary cities, there is two types of metropolis in Brazil, defined under principles of the Federal Constitution of 1988: functionals and formals, whose incipient and timely institutional arrangements make the management of a developing reality. Among them, the Integrated Development Region of the Federal District (RIDE DF) and the Metropolitan Region of Belém (RM Belém). The assumption that the knowledge of the real perimeters (functional metropolis), besides those that the law defines (formal metropolis), contributes to the improvement of the application of resources and to Brazilian urban development, guides this articlethe, linked to a larger research work concentrated in the urban morphology, aiming to identify, through criteria (population, density, dispersion, population growth, distances and travel times) the functional metropolitan perimeters of the two featured metropolis.