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This article is located in the field of urban research when analyzing the morphology-functional of the intra-urban space of Januaria/MG, based on the application of the morphologicalfunctional zoning model for medium-sized cities in Minas Gerais, developed by Amorim Filho (2007). The methodological structure was based on bibliographic and documentary research, field immersion, construction of the morphological-functional cartogram of the urban space of Januaria and iconographic record. Theoretical and empirical analyses have shown that the space organization of Januaria was initially formed according to the proximity to the San Francisco River, where the expansion of the urban spot was driven by population growth, public policies and urban equipment, after the 1980s. The morphological-functional representation of the urban nucleus made it possible to recognize Januaria as a middle city "on the threshold", in which intra-urban space is configured as a result of singular and general geographic spatial processes.

Computers are not only used in cartography to produce electronic versions of conventional manual methods. Some types of map projections also draw on their computing power, which makes it possible to produce extremely useful innovations, such as anamorphic cartograms. The method described consists in transforming the surface of geographical entities depending on a chosen variable. Using a topographic base transformed in this way to map the population, the analysis focuses on the municipalities of the Pays de la Loire and the Centre region, then changes scale with a map projection of the results of the presidential election of 2002. While disorganising the usual geographical points of reference, cartograms have a place in semiotics and warrant special attention for their contribution to our knowledge of space.

Beyond the sheer hexagon, an image deeply rooted in mental representations of the French, publicity plays with more or less reinterpreted shapes., Au-delà du simple hexagone, largement ancré dans les cartes mentales des Français, la publicité joue sur la forme, plus ou moins réinterprétée., Más alia del simple hexágono, ampliamente aferrado en los mapas mentales de los franceses, la publicidad juega de la forma mas o menos reinterpretada., Mappemonde. Jeux de cartes. In: Mappemonde, 1986/4. p. 48.