Rede urbana e produção de territórios: abordagens, agentes e inter-relações

Relating the urban network and territories production is the main goal of this four-topic structured article. On the first one, the aim is to clarify the meaning of urban network, putting it closer to the net's etimology concept. In the second topic, the search is the understanding of the urban network as a spacial organization attached to power relationships. Along the third topic, the relations between the kinds of uban networks' approaches, emphasising the territorial work division. At the last and forth topic, the main spacial producing agents were identified, the ones who detain the means which make the production circulation process feasible through different kinds of networks, pointing actions and strategies that can present interests' conflicts either in urban center or between them. Because its materially specialized characteristic, the urban network is the result of social and spacial relations inside some territory, therefore, it results from the territories production. Keywords: Urban network. Territories production. Power relationships. Producing agents.