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Peri-Urban Areas

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INTRODUCTION
This paper addresses local development strategies in peri-urban areas by focusing on the following aspects: food security, tenure rights, urban sprawl control, good governance and improvement of local economic chains. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the term peri-urban, as it is understood by current researchers and international organizations; and present a case study of local actions regarding food production in that spatial typology.
The case study that the research is based on is the City of Guapimirim, located in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro. The city, as it will be clarified, is a typical example of a former semi-rural area, which has been facing a strong urbanization process in the last few decades. …show more content…

Lack of infra-structure, informal settlements, etc... Such definition is partial, narrow, and does not consider the capability of the social forces, that live in the territory, to create an independent path of development. Fixing the absence as a category the judgment is already implicit and there is no political openness to be developed.
- Presenting the definition adopted by the research
In order to understand the range of potentialities of peri-urban areas, this paper adopts the understanding of multifunctional landscape (Nilsson, 2014), that combines different influences over land uses, political administrative context and life-styles. Moreover, we consider the concept of peri-urban areas through its social interaction, myriad of stakeholders, shadowed political boundary, environmental services, landscape peculiarities, economical potential, among other categories. Only having a broader perspective of the object, it is possible to develop an ongoing theory with a systematic horizontal …show more content…

In the point of view of this research, there is no ideal standard to reach. The term “peri-urban” must be understood as a new typology, both objective and subjective, with its own characteristics that need to be addressed in all its multiplicity.
GUAPIMIRIM CITY´S PERI-URBAN CHARACTERISTICS
As the research tries to stress, a sharply distinction between urban and rural activities (or functions) could not be well applied in the case of Guapimirim. Even having spatially separated territories (rural and urban zones), the exchange and flows of resources (people, knowledge, energy, etc.) and sectorial interaction between those areas are extremely dynamic. As pointed by Adell:
“The sectorial interaction consists of rural activities taking place in urban areas (e.g. urban agriculture) or traditionally “urban” activities as manufacturing and services taking place in rural areas, or even the peri-urban flows to and from rural industries that are spatially concentrated around urban areas” (Tacoli, 1998a in (Adell, 1999).

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