The relationship country-city in the municipality of Francisco Beltrão - Paraná - Brazil

Abstract

The country-city relationship was historically determined by the economic models implemented. In Brazil, that relationship has occurred according economic changes that, at the same time, reflected and materialized the ways of life of the inhabitants of those spaces. In this context, this article intends to be a contribution to the analysis and reflection of the country-city relation, in special in the municipality of Francisco Beltrão, located in the Southwest of the state of the Paraná - Brazil. This municipality had the country-city relation “incipient” in 1850 by 1940 period, when dominated a "mestizo" subsistence economy. From 1950, occured a migration to the town of Francisco Beltrão originated from Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina that levered and intensified the relationship between the country and the city. From 1970, new elements arose in the country and in the city that transform and modify the relation between these two spaces. Today, the country-city relation is motivated by the industrialization and the outsourcing from the country producers, by the population increasing and by companies that have their headquarters in the city and are linked to the country.