The intermediate city. Articulating node for planning and territorial planning in the Caribbean

Abstract

Developing the city is a relevant action for the regional regionalization policy that each nation demands in face of the new economic and urban paradigms of planning and territorial ordering. The objective is to promote the organization of nodal networks among the subregional urban centers that provide equipment and the provision of public, administrative, financial, commercial, eco-tourist and agro-industrial services of quality for the rural-urban function. The study has a qualitative - quantitative approach of descriptive documentary type, following the interpretation of the objectives of the investigation; by combining theory and urban practice from the conception of hermeneutics, when using conceptual content analysis. The result highlights the proposal to build urban networks by ordering the territory, with new hierarchies of scale seeking to contribute to a model of sustainable intermediate city in the Caribbean and facilitating the construction of urban settlements and public policies for economic management, urban ecology and citizen order in the territory.