Value of urban land in a intermediate city: volatility of capital and its ephemeral result.

Abstract

Most of the transformations in the territories are the result of global processes of economic and political restructuring of recent decades, whose primary interest is centered in urban areas and, most prominently, in metropolitan cities. In the cities of intermediate range, the dynamics and economic restructuring processes have encouraged the implementation of strategies to facilitate the establishment of investments, leading to competition between regions to attract capitals. The development of new factors and conditions of competitiveness carries a position of dependence of the financial and commercial markets accentuating, even more, the inequality and the territorial and social fragmentation of the urban space. To identify the processes of growth and expansion and its effects on the value that the urban soil acquires, it is a fundamental tool to intervene in the urban problems before its occurrence. The formation of value of the land in the intermediate cities and the factors, actors and social agents who affect in it, is what one proposes to examine and to expose in this work, bearing in mind that, in this range of cities, the mentioned processes reproduce as in the metropolitan cities though in different scale.