O Comércio e a Evolução Espacial das Áreas Centrais das Pequenas Cidades: O caso de Portalegre

• Miguel Castro ^[1]
  1. [1] Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre

     Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre

     São Lourenço, Portugal

     
• Localización: As Cidades na História : Sociedade : atas [do] II Congresso Histórico Internacional : 18 a 20 de outubro de 2017, Vol. 3, 2019 (Cidade Industrial), ISBN 978-989-8474-54-4, págs. 429-456
• Idioma: portugués
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  • Urban life depends on commerce; this activity promotes contacts and exchanges that go beyond the simple act of buying products - it is interactive and produces a broader social relationships.The town center has been the object of study, and nowadays it goes through processes of gentrification, nobilitation, renovation, rehabilitation and animation that seek out to return to these areas the role of economic command and social life that brings meaning and reason for being to the urban center . As an example, we present the central area and its commerce dynamics, in a small town (Portalegre), and how it has been changed, giving more or less effective answers to the transformations mentioned above. Due to widespread access to information and increased mobility, populations, directly or indirectly, induced commercial expansion and contraction of the spatial dynamics of the historical center of this locality. We follow the changes cartographically, but we also justify how the demographic aspects and pressures of postmodern society, globalized and markedly western one are reflected in urban space and how commercial activity is the fulcrum of these changes.