Santa Fe-Paraná metropolitan area: Metropolis of second order. Mobility of people dwelling - work and their strategies

Abstract

This work presents the outcomes of the project “Urban Observatory of the Metropolitan Area Santa Fe-Parana”. This research made some progress in the treatment of the metropolitan phenomenon in a second reading of the Santa Fe-Paraná Metropolitan Area, based on social practices. It deepened the analysis of daily mobility from the evidence of the consolidation of the metropolitan scale as a significant unit of everyday experience for the inhabitants included, which constitutes relevant approximation towards the recognition and prioritization of problems in the field. That is why this research is based on the theory of mobility studies as a methodology to overcome the static view of the territory, enabling an exploratory inquiry open to relational readings that explains today’s dynamics and mobility variables made invisible in traditional records that were previously applied.