A Logística Contemporânea no projeto de modernização territorial: aproximações entre o Roteiro da Missão Cruls (Brasil) e Nord-Pas-de-Calais (França)

Abstract

This master's dissertation has as a guiding axis a geographic investigation centered on the geostrategy analysis that the road networks engender in the spatial dynamics. The networks are basic for the development and organization of the territory as they are responsible for the movement of people, goods, information and capital. Thus, these infrastructures and their printed logic, fulfill an important function in territorial planning and a geostrategic role in the intensity with which socio-spatial and economic relations materialize in the space. In addition, the circulation and the transport are increasingly important in the production process by allowing the conditions of access, recovery and fluidity of the spaces. Nevertheless, it is perceived that the expansion and modernization of transport infrastructures have been and are articulated with the strategies of the dominant groups that implement them and use them to accomplish the accumulation of the capital. Such accumulation requires articulation and territorial control, in which the character of power and planning of networks and transport infrastructures is effectively manifested. The transport networks, in this scenario, appear as instruments that enable the strategies of organization, circulation and communication and political-territorial action (logistics in the sense). In this sense, the region comprising the Roteiro of the Cruls Mission, located in the central region of the Brazilian territory and the Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Hauts-de-France region, France, are distinct territorial formations, with particular questions in the face of each social historical process for the two national states to which these areas belong. However, both geographic situations present comparative analysis points to be considered by the analyses of the transport networks and their modernization and reconversion in the contemporary context. Therefore, in view of this inherent dynamics of globalization, the present discussion aims to understand, through a comparative analysis, the logistics in the contemporaneity as a series of geostrategies correlated to the spatial adjustment resulting in spatial planning, spatial valorization and technical density in the context of globalization for the two geographical situations analyzed. In this context, territorial planning in both areas is mainly through territorial policies, which aim to ensure the planned organization of the spaces under the domain of the state, the corporations and the participation of civil society organized, with a view to some interesting points of comparison, such as road-building, highway infrastructure, geographic situation (articulation) and the creation of logistical platforms from the logistic segment in the globalization.