Regional Development

What role do medium-sized cities play in organizing their regions, and how do they structure flows of people, capital and information?

What role do small cities play in the regional urban network, and what are their own sociospatial and morphological dynamics?

When the pandemic arrived, how could we track the spread of Covid-19 across a territory as large as Rio Grande do Sul, and explain it to the public?

Do regions in Rio Grande do Sul function around a single dominant city or around several centers, and what does that mean for regional development?

How do the location decisions of multinational companies shape the network of cities in a region, and can we see it in the data?