ANÁLISE SOBRE AS DEFINIÇÕES TERRITORIAIS DE CIDADE, MUNICÍPIO E METRÓPOLE NA DIVERSIDADE DO TERRITÓRIO BRASILEIRO

Resumen

This article discusses the criteria for defining cities, the urban environment and their delimitations in the territory. Criteria for elucidating political-administrative and geographic discussions based on the IBGE's conceptualization, elaborated for the accomplishment of censuses, that have repercussions in the decision making of urban planning and political management. The procedures are based on the geoprocessing tools, vector analysis for polygonal resulting from geometric operations that define cities, urban, countryside, municipalities, metropolis and regions, whereas alphanumeric data are associated with these polygons, represented by population, households, income, sanitation, collection of taxes, distribution of federal resources, among others. Therefore, within this delimitation, many questions arise, which guide the legislation of land use, public policies, the application of resources and efforts where it is necessary to improve the conditions of the environment built in its different scales and complexities.