Economic Cycles and Surges in Parintins: Historical Change in Socio-spatial Organization and Urban Structure
<p>This article treats the economic history and the process of urbanization in<br />an Amazonian city. Differently from other regions in Latin American, the occupation of the Amazon region involved specific processes of the short-lived surge of an export product induced externallyfollowe...
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doaj-df7969f61b3c4b84a3d41dd6c66b7e292020-11-24T22:22:35ZporUniversidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroEspaço Aberto2236-13672237-30712013-07-0131771001795Economic Cycles and Surges in Parintins: Historical Change in Socio-spatial Organization and Urban StructureBertha Koiffmann Becker0Amanda Cavaliere Lima1Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro<p>This article treats the economic history and the process of urbanization in<br />an Amazonian city. Differently from other regions in Latin American, the occupation of the Amazon region involved specific processes of the short-lived surge of an export product induced externallyfollowed by a long period of economic stagnation before the rise of another export product. Since the first colonial occupation of the Amazon, Parintins (Amazonas State) passed through different phases of territorial and socio-spatial organization characterized by the advance and collapse local economic activities. Settlement followed an agricultural and collecting pattern until attaining today’s citybased on cultural tourism, the most important event being the Folklore Festival. Located on an island combining floodplain and off-floodplain land use systems, a diversified division of labor arose over time employing workers from different regional originsto meet demand arising from different scales.</p>https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/EspacoAberto/article/view/2101Ocupação territorialCrescimento demográficoSurtos econômicosUrbanizaçãoParintins (AM) |
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Bertha Koiffmann Becker Amanda Cavaliere Lima Economic Cycles and Surges in Parintins: Historical Change in Socio-spatial Organization and Urban Structure Espaço Aberto Ocupação territorial Crescimento demográfico Surtos econômicos Urbanização Parintins (AM) |
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Bertha Koiffmann Becker Amanda Cavaliere Lima |
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Economic Cycles and Surges in Parintins: Historical Change in Socio-spatial Organization and Urban Structure |
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Economic Cycles and Surges in Parintins: Historical Change in Socio-spatial Organization and Urban Structure |
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Economic Cycles and Surges in Parintins: Historical Change in Socio-spatial Organization and Urban Structure |
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Economic Cycles and Surges in Parintins: Historical Change in Socio-spatial Organization and Urban Structure |
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Economic Cycles and Surges in Parintins: Historical Change in Socio-spatial Organization and Urban Structure |
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economic cycles and surges in parintins: historical change in socio-spatial organization and urban structure |
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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro |
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Espaço Aberto |
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2236-1367 2237-3071 |
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2013-07-01 |
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<p>This article treats the economic history and the process of urbanization in<br />an Amazonian city. Differently from other regions in Latin American, the occupation of the Amazon region involved specific processes of the short-lived surge of an export product induced externallyfollowed by a long period of economic stagnation before the rise of another export product. Since the first colonial occupation of the Amazon, Parintins (Amazonas State) passed through different phases of territorial and socio-spatial organization characterized by the advance and collapse local economic activities. Settlement followed an agricultural and collecting pattern until attaining today’s citybased on cultural tourism, the most important event being the Folklore Festival. Located on an island combining floodplain and off-floodplain land use systems, a diversified division of labor arose over time employing workers from different regional originsto meet demand arising from different scales.</p> |
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Ocupação territorial Crescimento demográfico Surtos econômicos Urbanização Parintins (AM) |
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