EL SISTEMA DE CIUDADES MEDIAS Y LOS CENTROS DE COMERCIO EN CHILPANCINGO, GUERRERO (2000 - 2009).

Abstract

The process of urbanization of our country has to define complex features, but in general can be considered an urban country to Mexico, this phenomenon was recently presented with greater intensity in the medium-sized cities, such as the cities of the state of Guerrero: Acapulco, Chilpancingo, Iguala, Chilapa, Zihuatanejo and Taxco; cities with the highest concentration of population and economic activities which represent the city and state territorial unit. We studied the territorial impacts of the system of medium-sized towns in Guerrero state on two scales: the regional and urban. At the regional scale regional analysis was performed on the theory of central place, this was for the purpose of observing the impacts of regional level in two aspects of the system of cities. With regard to urban, we performed a diagnostic of the city of Chilpancingo, to determine the impact suffered by the urban structure and urban image of the city for the settlement of trade center. The results have been encouraging and consistent with empirical observations of the study area, in addition to that urban planning applied to the state of Guerrero and the process of economic globalization, are undoubtedly a crucial element in the territorial impacts experienced by cities causing functional specialization and urban hierarchy. It was also observed an approach to the regularity of central place theory, in which there is a central and six tributary areas (in this case there are only 5 tributary areas); Acapulco as central to regional and other cities as their tributary areas. In the urban scale impacts observed in the urban structure and urban image. These two aspects analyzed with the clear influence of the context of economic globalization allow an exchange and commercial distribution from global cities to outlying cities, expanding markets into ever smaller cities, making clear the direct impact that this phenomenon has on cities medium-size and regional impacts generated in the two scales mentioned above.