A Centralidade do ensino superior e o processo de redefinição socioespacial em Dourados-MS

Abstract

This study aimed to apprehend the process of redefinition socioespacial in Dourados-MS as from the centrality exerted by higher education. Dourados articulates, directly or indirectly, the other 33 urban centers spanning an area of influence that extends south of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and the extreme northwest of the state of Paraná. This area was used as a reference in its articulation with the scale of the city and in articulation with broader scales, for the analysis of centrality expressed by higher education. The set of centers that compose the regional urban network is analyzed in an attempt to reveal aspects of the complexification of spatial interactions, which are in the form of diversification and complementarity. Dourados, in turn, reveals itself as the center with the largest regional offer for higher education courses, face-to-face modality, and for post graduate, with emphasis on the strict sense modality. The reading this condition permeates the understanding of its configuration, which reveals itself in these molds from the relationship with the other municipalities. Of the articulation of regional scale to the scale of the city, we seek to understand the sociospatial redefinitions from the consequences of the offer of higher education in Dourados. Initially, these developments are verified by the way in which the public institutions linked to is inserted in the city. Still dealing with the intra-urban scale, we search from flows (material and immaterial) and redefining socio nearby of HEI, indicate that there is, considering the functional specialization of certain areas in the city, a contribution to the complexity of urban centrality. In that sense, higher education, to contribute to the consolidation of the condition of centrality of Dourados in regional urban network, also contributes to the expression of new centralities inside the city.