Trayectorias industriales metropolitanas: nuevos procesos, nuevos contrastes

Abstract

Urban and industrial reality has undergone a strong process of restructuring during the last decades. In the first half of the 80's, concepts like de-industrialization or post-industrialization were associated with those of de-urbanization or counter-urbanization. Only a few years later the argument became to be radically different after the confirmation of strong positive urban-metropolitan externalities, and urban areas turned back to be considered as winning spaces. The following pages will try to summarize some of these transformations, which metropolitan firms and industrial areas have experimented in the last years.