Title: Cidades médias e pequenas
Description: This collection of texts was produced by scholars dedicated to investigations on medium and small cities, with the main purpose of launching reflections on some theoretical, methodological and conceptual issues that affect research related to these specific types of nucleations, at the time it illustrates, through empirical studies, all the diversity of themes that underlie the scientific work that develops from the look on medium and small urban centers.The chapters that compose this compilation were written by researchers from Brazil, Argentina and Portugal, being divided in two sections: Part I, entitled  Contributions to the production of knowledge about medium and small citiesʺ, has seven contributions that deal with themes of theoretical, methodological or conceptual nature related to the approach on medium and small cities, while Part II , called  Empirical Studies on Medium Cities days and small ʺ, welcomes three other texts that have a prominent empirical analysis bias, with texts that deal with cities such as the Patagonian Comodoro Rivadavia (Argentina), Aceguá and Acegua (twin cities on the border between Brazil and Uruguay) and the Agglomerate Urbano de Macapá and Santana, in the Amazonian state of Amapá. Anyway, this book is a collective work that aims to initiate debates about medium and small cities, adding to the already vast number of productions written about these types of urban centers, while at the same time seeking, in an additional way, to stimulate new initiatives of studies and research, both in the epistemological field and those dedicated to the empirical approach.
Subjects: Architecture and society, History, City planning, Cities and towns