SMALL CITIES IN AMAZON AND TERRITORIAL ORDAINMENT: LOCAL NETWORKS OF SUBJECT AND THE URBAN NETWORKS OF URUCARÁ AND SÃO SEBASTIÃO DO UATUMÃ (AM)

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to understand the urban roles and functions of Urucará and São Sebastião do Uatumã (AM), which have intense relationships with the regional urban network through river dynamics and your riverside population. For as much as small cities, it´s described the main networks of subjects that make up the Urban-Riverside Territorial System (STUR) that exercise fishing activity, guarana cultivation, naval carpentry and furniture making. The STUR model is a methodological proposal for understanding the popular economy in interaction with the city's market sectors and various scales. It's be concluded by presenting a pattern of spatial organization of cities with your surroundings, demonstrating centrifugal and centripetal forces influenced by the urban economy, useful for the understanding the mediations that cities play in the territorial ordainment.