All rights reservedConti, AlfioSosa, FlorenciaAndrade Oliveira, Amanda2024-08-232024-08-232016978-85-7785-551-1https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1909Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the southThe current Brazilian urban landscape is not very attractive, be it because of the high costs of living associated with housing, as well as transportation between cities, or because of the worsening quality of life. Due to these negative circumstances and the presence of a strong regional network of highways, rural spaces are becoming more and more attractive for people who live and work in metropolitan areas, creating regional decentralization among people and operations, allowing new forms of living in rural areas that are more and more urban. The urban diffusion or metropolization of territories (INDOVINA, 1998) is relatively new to Brazil, as exemplified by medium-sized cities (AMORIM 2007, AMORIM, RIGOTTI, CAMPOS 2007) as strategic players in this phenomenon, due to the high adaptability of the individual characteristics of each region (CONTI, 2013). These new processes transform and redefine transportation patterns, housing options, as well as the localization of the productive, commercial and service sectors, in addition to the reasons and tendencies associated with the territorial distribution of peri-urban areas (CICCOLELLA, 2012). In this new reality, there’s a gap between the urban diffusion of the territory, and the instruments of local and regional planning and land use. These tools have not yet succeeded in assimilating the changes in course that have presented themselves in the absence of urban strategies that take into account both the transformation of this space, as well as the absence of regulatory instruments. The hypothesis of this study argues that the main tendency of the process of urban growth in peri-urban areas is tied to the logic of the very market that takes advantage of the pressures of urbanization, and above all, of the inadequacy of the regulations as well as urban and regional planning at a regional scale.EnglishopenAccessconferenceObject1585-1588