A NATUREZA DO URBANO EM ANÍSIO DE ABREU, PIAUÍ - NOTAS SOBRE A CONFORMAÇÃO DA CIDADE (original) (raw)

This paper aims to analyse the nature of urban in the city of Anísio de Abreu, Piauí. Our methodology comprises a literature survey revision on the difference between urban and rural, reminding that both terms cannot be confused with city and countryside. While countryside and city are both geographic forms, rural and urban are ascribed qualities to distinct ways of life. We bring on this paper since the ancient cities’ formation until recent studies about cities networks. Thus, we try perceiving the ways the phenomenon of the city manifests throughout time. Therefore, we did a fieldwork to assess empirically what some studies affirm about the city and evaluate what elements are compatible with our research. We did this monograph considering the historical process of cities conformation vis-à-vis State territory formation. Hence, we intend to bring some aspects that contribute to the understanding of emancipation processes in Anísio de Abreu, as much the separation from Caracol as Jurema’s split from those municipalities. Consequently, we try to add a specific reason for the emancipation of some cities in Piauí, a deeply rural State.