Legal and institutional disjunctions metropolitan and national policy of regional development

Abstract

The debate on priority areas defined by the National Policy for Regional Development and its relations with the Brazilian Metropolitan Regions in the context of politics has shown contradictory with a clear separation of two spaces that are naturally connected. It is this paradoxical dimension that this article seeks to analyze as to demonstrate the damage this disjunction, especially for peripheral municipalities of the Brazilian metropolis. For this, it contains a theoretical revision about space issues and public policies, and also a collection work and analyzes of data that had allowed to arrive the conclusions presented in this article and to bring some points to the discussion, still not conclusive, about the metropolitan regional relation and importance in the countryÍ€™s development policy.