La ciudad y la región: imágenes y realidades revisitadas.

In the construction of a theoretical framework that makes it possible to address the relationship between the city and region, it is pertinent to analyze whether the theory and methodology, that stands as current orthodoxy, has proved appropriate for the study of the development of regions, or if urban and regional trajectories should be addressed incorporating missing elements that allow us to visualize their dynamics. In this sense, we consider that to pretend to recognize the city, decontextualized of its insertion in specific regions and territories represents an incomplete abstraction, which not only fragments the analysis of the urban but also, the processes of reproduction of the space as a whole. The article propose to critically review the relationship between the city and region in the foundations of the predominant theories in the literature, that constitute the mainstream of urban and regional thinking since the 1980s, and in alternative visions that highlight the heterogeneity of the trajectories of the territories, primarily referring to the contributions of Latin American authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]