CITY-COUNTRYSIDE AND URBAN-RURAL RELATIONS: REINTRODUCING URBANITIES IN RURAL AREAS AS CONSTITUTIVE ELEMENTS OF SPACE IN METROPOLIZATION

The paper focuses the urban-rural relations integrated by the metropolization of space seen as the dominant spatial process nowadays. The changing relationship between space and society has rendered traditional divisions rural-urban increasingly indistinct although significant particularities and singularities still remain. We use the materialistic dialectical approach in order to understand the above phenomena based on the notion of totality. This approach suggests that another dialectic may lead to the idea of "urbanities in rural areas" considering this ones as manifestations of hybrid territories, in which the urban and rural intertwine.