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Heleniza Ávila Campos
Professora Doutora do Departamento de Urbanismo da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) e do Programa de Pós Graduação em Planejamento Urbano e Regional (PROPUR/UFRGS).

Spatial configuration and typology of the urban functional area of the twin cities Uruguaiana (BR) - Paso de Los Libres (AR): border dynamics

The Brazilian borderline strip is a 150 km width domain continuous and parallel to its territorial limits. Its twin-cities are urban agglomerates contiguous spatially and discontinuous territorially. Their typological diversity relates to the borderline porosity and the limits imposed to it by the conurbation processes between the urban agglomerate parts, what differentiate territorial dynamics at local scale. Regional circulation and urban networks also inform such processes, since the twin cities hierarchical position in such networks relate to the gateways’ functional specialization, coherent to the kind and intensity of flows they tend to capture. Our hypothesis is that there is a positive correlation between these processes and the spatial system self-organizing patterns at local scale, restraining or improving cross-border interfaces and interchanges. The hypothesis was tested empirically on the Uruguaiana (BR) / Paso de los Libres (AR) case, the most important MERCOSUR cargo gateway. Targets are to a) describe and analyze the agglomerate whole and parts spatial configuration, applying space syntax methods; b) classify the Functional Urban Area (FUA - ESPON, 2007) emerging from the international conurbation process; c) evaluate the regional road network influence on the spatial diffusion of specialized economic activities related to cargo transport and logistics locally.

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