This thesis investigates the urban centers and the phenomenon of centralities today, having
Palmas, capital of Tocantins State, as the empirical object. Palmas was established, for a still
non-existent population, from an urban plan of 1989. Its project rationality precepts are
already transgressed in its early years, when it actually enters the capitalist logic of urban
space production, and the public administration acts as a key participant in such process. As
a result, it triggers the phenomenon of early multi centrality. Its urban centers arise
triggering social contradictions, while exposing its urbanization process conflicts. While its
main center symbolically evokes the power and is aligned to the hegemonic interests, its
popular sub-centers reveal a collective construction of space and rich appropriations of its
public open spaces, opening up greater possibilities for urban living and contributing to the
formation of citizenship.
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